Copenhaver v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Smith v. Glen Alden Coal Co. (1943), London v. Kingsley (1951)
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Doe Lessee of Poor v. Considine · First Universalist Society of North Adams v. Boland · Nicoll v. . the New-York and Erie Railroad Co. · Upington v. . Corrigan · North v. Graham
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] reversion is the remnant of an estate continuing in the grantor , undisposed of, after the grant of a part of his interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Upon a grant or devise of a particular estate limited to determine upon the happening of an event which is certain to happen, with a contingent remainder over, there remains in the grantor or devisor a reversion, subject to be defeated by the happening of the contingency upon which the remainder is conditioned. 1 Washburn (6th Ed.) sec. 169; 1 Tiffany on Real Prop. (1920 Ed) sec. 141; Fearne, Remainders, p. 279, et seq.; Graves, Notes on Real Prop., sec. 181; 1 Minor on Real Prop. (2d Ed.) secs. 758 and 720; 23 R. C. L. Remainders, secs. 55-57, pp. 518-520; Bigley v. Watson, 98 Tenn. 353 , 39 S. W. 525 , 38 L.R. A. 679.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitten v. Whitten“qualified fee limited to determine upon a contingency which may never happen.”
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.