Coleman v. Shoemaker’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1967
20 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 Klingman v. Gilbert · Grossenbacher v. Spring · Ewing v. Nesbitt · Gardner v. Anderson · Woodley v. Howse
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An estate tail or fee tail is a freehold estate in which there is a fixed line of inheritable succession limited to the issue of the body of the grantee or devisee, and in which the regular and general succession of statutory heirs at law is cut off.” (Syl. ¶ 3.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . whenever it appears in the instrument creating the estate that it was intended that the issue of the first taker should take by inheritance in a direct line, and in a regular order and course of descent, so long as his posterity should endure, and an estate in fee or in tail is given in remainder, upon an indefinite failure of issue, then the estate first created will be construed to be an estate tail. If, on the other hand, the limitation over is not postponed until an indefinite failure of issue, but is to take effect on failure of children only or on failure of issue within a given time, upon what is known as a ‘definite failure of issue/ it is well settled that the estate will not belong to the class known as ‘estates tail/ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Pedroja“"The trial court allowed each of the two guardians ad litem a fee of $250, to be paid, together with the costs in the trial court, out of the corpus of the estate. Appellant objects to this order, especially as to the fund from which it was ordered to be taken. This is purely a matter of discretion, and we think for the best interests of all concerned that it was a very wise choice.” (p. 696.)”
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.