155 Pa. Super. 519 - Calhoun v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2001
15 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 Slegel v. Lauer · Hess v. Vinton Colliery Co. · Spratt v. Greenfield · Anania v. Serenta · Phillips v. Swank
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This reversionary interest, or possibility of reverter, was subject to alienation by the grantors, and on March 19, 1895, they contracted and agreed under seal to grant and convey the said real estate to W. Seward B. Hays, and the latter covenanted and agreed to pay . . .”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. London v. Kingsley“to be used for the establishment and maintenance of the common schools. . . and for no other purpose . . . said lot to revert to the grantors, their heirs and assigns, as soon as said parties . . . cease to use it for said purpose,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.