ReQua v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1974
4 federal appellate · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRequa v. Graham
Relationships
Relies on Carper v. Crowl · Steib v. Whitehead · Blatchford v. Newberry · Rigg v. Wilton · Young v. Clapp
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A provision by will in lieu of dower is in fact and in legal effect a mere offer by the testator to purchase out the dower interest for the benefit of his estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The annuity in question was a mere offer by Mrs. Nichols to her husband for the purchase of his interest in her estate.”
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.