Chadwick v. Bristow’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Murphy v. Slaton (1954), Weidner v. Crowther (1957)
78 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 Dakan v. Dakan · Nye v. Bradford · Caples v. Ward · Larrabee v. Porter · Sherman v. Goodson's Heirs
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What was meant [by the language in question] was manifestly that the remainder-man’s right of possession, while indefeasible, would not arise until the survivor’s death, not that the title to the remainders themselves did not vest sooner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shearrer v. Holley
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.