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Gannon v. Albright’s Empirical Analysis

1904

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
5
states following
June 1990
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably Magill v. Newman (1990), Elsea v. Smith (1918)

3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

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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 Howard v. Carusi · Van Horne v. . Campbell · Kelley v. Meins · Roth v. Rauschenbusch · Yocum v. Siler

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “. . . That it [the will] does not create an estate tail by implication, because both by the language of the will and especially by the positive command of the statute of 1845, the words `die without issue' mean dying without issue living at the death of said Michael and Joseph, and therefore mean a definite failure of issue, . . . and, finally, that by said fourth clause of the will the said two sons took a fee simple subject to be defeated upon their dying without issue living at their death. . . .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gannon v. Pauk · Humphreys v. Welling
  2. “It is my will that the same shall not be sold, at least not before the younger of the two . . . becomes of lawful age; and should either of them die without issue, then the survivor, his heirs and assigns to take . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Humphreys v. Welling

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.