Lantz v. Caraway’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1985
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Bowen v. Swander · Brumfield v. Drook · Comer v. Light · Nelson v. Nelson · Rumsey v. Durham
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of equitable conversion is applicable as between the testator and the specific beneficiary to determine the character of the estate which the latter is ultimately to receive under the will and, in the absence of any expressed contrary intention on the part of the testator, the share of a beneficiary who dies before the termination of the life estate will generally pass as that character of property which he would have received upon the death of the life tenant.””
1 later decision 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.