Ready v. Kearsley’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1965
11 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 Hunter v. Watson · Jackson ex dem. Cooper v. Cory · Morse v. Carpenter · La Grange v. L'Amoureux
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 5565. Every person who, by virtue of any grant, assignment or devise, now is or hereafter shall be entitled to the actual possession of lands and the receipt of the rents and profits thereof, in law or in equity, shall be deemed .to have a legal estate therein, of the same quality and duration and subject to the same conditions as his beneficial interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loring v. Palmer
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.