Bowlin v. Vinsant’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1995
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 Pletner v. Southern Lumber Co. · Gregory v. Welch · Harrington v. Cooper · Bell v. Gentry
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.
“This court has often ruled that where land is conveyed, or devised, to a person and the heirs of the body, children, or issue of such person, such conveyance or devise creates an estate in fee tail in the grantee or devisee, which, under our statute [now § 18-12-301] becomes an estate for life only in the grantee or devisee, and a fee simple absolute in the person to whom the estate tail would first pass, according to the course of the common law, by virtue of such devise, grant or conveyance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pickens v. Black“during her life, at her death, or should my said wife not survive me, unto my daughter, Gertrude Vinsant, and unto the heirs of her body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pickens v. Black
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.