Keen v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2000
9 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 Mercantile Trust Co. v. Schloss · Tomb v. Bardo · Johnson v. Catherine Gunther Stringer · Randall v. Randall · Clark v. Tennison ex rel. Browning
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The renunciation of such attempted prior interest prevents the period within which such substitution was intended to be possible from ever existing. The accelerated interest is not defeasible upon the subsequent occurrence of the designated event.” 2 Restatement, Property, Section 231, Comment h (1936).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When an attempted prior interest fails because the person to whom it is limited renounces it, succeeding interests are accelerated except when (a) the terms and circumstances of the limitation manifest a contrary intent (see Sections 232 and 233) # * *” 2 Restatement, Property, Section 231 (1936).”
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.