Petty v. Boothe’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2006
21 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 Pollard v. Merrill · Allen v. White · Moss v. McCall
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should never be resorted to until all efforts to reconcile the conflicting parts [have] failed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the first clause in a deed, and the last in a will shall prevail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. White
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.