Liggett v. Ladd’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2005
11 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.
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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.
““Mere voluntary associations, however, can not take the title to real property in their society name, as they are not in law regarded persons, but it may be held for their use and benefit by trustees, and the right to the enjoyment of the property be secured in that way. Such trustees, as I view it, may be artificial persons as well as natural ones. If this is correct, then, while the Methodist Episcopal Church South could not, in consequence of its being unincorporated, take the legal title to real property, yet it could secure the benefit of the property by having the legal title to it conveyed to a corporation for its use.””
2 later decisions 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.