Anderson v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1950
14 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 Markham v. Waterman · Bunting v. Speek · Klingman v. Gilbert · Purl v. Purl · McLean v. Stanley
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.
““In a devise to a wife for life, with remainder to the legal heirs of the testator, to create a contingent remainder the intent so to do must be expressed in words so plain that there is no room for construction. “No remainder will be construed to be contingent which may, consistently with the words used and the intention expressed, be deemed vested.” (Syl. ¶!11, 2.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buxton v. Noble · Cramer v. Browne““It is said in 69 C. J. 597: ‘In accordance with the rules heretofore stated, a clearly manifested intention as to the time of vesting will prevail over the rules of construction in favor of vesting, but the law favors the early vesting of testamentary gifts. If a contrary intention does not clearly appear an interest will always be construed] as vested rather than contingent, and to vest at the earliest possible time consistent with the testator’s intention, so that if a contrary intention is not manifest the interest will usually be regarded as vesting immediately upon the testator’s death.’ ” (p. 617.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buxton v. Noble““Where a life tenancy and remainders are carved out of an estate by will, and the remaindermen are in esse, definitely ascertained, and nothing but their death before the termination of the life tenancy can defeat their title, the remainders thus created and bestowed by the will are vested absolutely in the remaindermen.” (Syl. U 3.)”
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.