McIntyre v. McIntyre’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1962
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule in Shelley’s Case may he controlled by the manifest intention of the testator or grantor, where it appears upon the face of the instrument, first, that he meant to confine the first taker to an estate for life; and, second, that he meant to effectuate that intention by some clear and intelligent expression of a design to have the issue, heirs, or heirs of the body take by purchase, and not by descent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hickson v. Davenport
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.