Marsh v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2006
17 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 Zabel v. Stewart · Clutter v. Hill · Shannep v. Strong · Markham v. Waterman · Mydland v. Ross
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule against perpetuities has been stated many times and in In re Estate of Davis, 171 Kan. 605 , 237 P.2d 396 , it was again set out as meaning that no future interest in property can lawfully be created which does not necessarily vest within twenty-one years after some life or lives presently in being, excluding from such computation of years the incipient life of infants in ventre sa mere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Where one provision of a will is invalid because it violates the rule against perpetuities, and the testamentary scheme of the testator can be determined and carried out regardless of the void provision, that provision will be stricken out and the testamentary plan given effect."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest.”
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.