Lombard v. Witbeck’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 1972 · most notably Fifer v. Allen (1907), Appleton v. Rea (1945)
8 federal appellate · 35 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 Woman's Union Missionary Society of America v. Mead · Summers v. Smith · Goodwillie v. Millimann · Strain v. Sweeny · Friedman v. Steiner
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ordinarily the language used in this will would lead to the conclusion that the surviving brother and sister took an estate in fee determinable upon both dying, leaving no issue or descendants of issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in no case shall any part of the real estate left by me for their use and benefit, or the proceeds thereof if sold, be advanced or conveyed to said grandchildren or any of them during their lifetime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be a fee determinable or a mere life estate, is not, in the view we take of the case, important.”
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.