Hooker v. Bryan.’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1951
1 federal appellate · 4 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• “It is clear that the testator intended to give immediately the capital to the person in remainder, postponing the enjoyment only till the arrival at a particular age.” (Citing cases, including 2 Underhill on Wills, sec. 896.) (p. 405.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smiley v. Johnston
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.