Southgate v. Karp’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1957
2 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 14 N.J. Eq. 124 - Leigh v. Executors of Savidge · Hitchcock v. Hitchcock · Lea v. . Johnson · State ex rel. Christian County v. Gideon
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is well established that the construction to be given should favor the heir who by another construction would be deprived of an equal share in the distribution of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cattell v. Evans
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.