Savela v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1965 · most notably Holden v. First National Bank & Trust Co. (1940), In re the Trusteeship under the Last Will & Testament of Bell (1920)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McArthur v. Scott · Doe Lessee of Poor v. Considine · Warner v. . Durant · Everitt v. . Everitt · Scott v. West
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That Avhere a gift is to a class, as children or grandchildren, and the right of enjoyment is postponed beyond the time that the gift vests in right, and until the termination of a preceding estate, the members of the class entitled to take will be ascertained as of the time when the intervening estate is determined and the gift to the class vests in enjoyment.” (Citing a large number of cases.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where an immediate gift is made to a class and the right exists to have the property distributed at once on the death of the testator, the persons constituting the class are determined as of the death of the testator. * * * * * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.