Singer v. Singer’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Kelly v. Womack (1954), Rekdahl v. Long (1967)
8 federal appellate · 45 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 Harrell v. Hickman · Choate v. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. · Ochoa v. Winerich Motor Sales Co. · Eastham v. Hunter · Halsted v. Globe Indemnity Co.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A perpetuity has been defined as a limitation which takes the subject-matter of the perpetuity out of commerce for a period of time greater than a life or lives in being, and 21 years thereafter, plus the ordinary period of gestation.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is immaterial that full possession and enjoyment of the property is postponed beyond the period of a life or lives in being and twenty-one years thereafter with the ordinary period of gestation added.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rekdahl v. Long
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.