Buxton v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Beall v. Hardie (1955), In Re Estate of Works (1950)
32 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 Moore v. Littel · Markham v. Waterman · Golladay v. Knock · Bunting v. Speek · Kirkpatrick v. Kirkpatrick
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The life estate devised to the widow having failed in its inception, the life estate in the son was accelerated and became a possessory estate. It also follows that the remainder to the grandchildren will become an estate in possession upon the death of the son who holds the preceding life estate. The grandchildren named as remaindermen are the children of the life tenant, Homer Orville Ward. At the time of the death of the testator, four children had been born. The remainder was vested in these four children subject to open and let in other children born to the life tenant. . .” (p. 224.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Epperson v. Bennett““Where by the provisions of a will an interest passes in fee to a certain and definite person in being or the only one of a prescribed class, as children of a certain person, the taking of the estate at the death of a life tenant generally and naturally has reference to a postponement of the enjoyment rather than a postponement of the vesting of the estate.” (Syl. ¶ 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Epperson v. Bennett““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. IT 1, 2.)”
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.