Granger v. Granger’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Quilliam v. Union Trust Co. (1924), 91 Ind. App. 574 - Abernathy v. McCoy (1926)
4 federal appellate · 29 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 De Vaughn v. Hutchinson · Glover v. Condell · Shimer v. Mann · Ridgeway v. Lanphear · Jones v. Miller
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•The deviso wás distinctly: First, to Edwin, an estate for the torn of his natural life, and nothing more; and this in a clause by itself. In the second clause, the devise, after Edwin’s death, was ‘to the heirs of his body by him begotten, if there be any such heirs him surviving,’ ” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clow v. Hosier
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.