Lawrence v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably Johnson v. Preston (1907), 81 Ill. 2d 105 - Williams v. Crickman (1980)
2 district · 40 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 Tilden v. . Green · Howe v. Hodge · Commonwealth v. Perkins · Bryer v. Chase · Coffman v. Coffman
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not enough that a contingent event may happen, or even that it will probably happen, within the limits of the rule against perpetuities; if it can possibly happen beyond those limits, an interest conditioned on it is too remote."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Crosson
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.