Parsons v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.2d 1000 · 1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cunningham v. Fidelity Nat. Bank · In Re Jones' Estate · Dixon v. Helena Society of Free Methodist Church · In re Naturalization of Aliens Who Claimed Exemption from the Draft or from Military Service
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under devise to son of land to fall to son’s heirs at his death, son to have all revenue of land during lifetime and at his death same to fall to his heirs, son took a life estate, and his heirs a contingent remainder which vested upon his death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beatty v. Miley
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.