Potter v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
141 U.S. 296 · 1891
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably Corrigan v. Buckley (1926), Hopkins v. Grimshaw (1897)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 · John Smith v. Robert Bell · Nichols Assignee v. Eaton et al. · Manice v. . Manice · Doe Lessee of Poor v. Considine
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a restriction ... not forbidding alienation to particular persons or for particular purposes only, but against any and all alienation whatever during a limited time, of an estate in fee, is likewise void, as repugnant to the estate devised to the first taker, by depriving him during that time of the inherent power of alienation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But the right of alienation is an inherent and inseparable quality of an estate in fee simple. In a devise of land in fee simple, therefore, a condition against all alienation is void, because repugnant to the estate devised ... For the same reason a limitation over, in case the first devisee shall alien, is equally void, whether the estate be legal or equitable. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No court shall order the satisfaction of a judgment out of any property held in trust for the judgment debtor if such trust has, in good faith, been created by, or the fund so held in trust has proceeded from, a person other than the judgment debtor.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 110, par. 2 — 1403.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.