Tanton v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1988
23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedTanton v. Keller
Relationships
Relies on Langdon v. . Astor's Executors · Anderson v. Irwin · Winchell v. Edwards · Cheney v. Roodhouse · 38 N.J. Eq. 91 - Taylor v. Tolen
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [I]t has been said that a legatee will have no title to a specific legacy, unless the thing bequeathed remains in specie, as described in the will, at the testator's death.”
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.