Roth v. Karsten’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1959
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 McArthur v. Scott · Scofield v. Olcott · Heilman v. Heilman · Scott v. West · Knight v. Pottgieser
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.
““The fundamental rule seems to be that where a legacy is postponed the time of vesting depends upon whether the postponement relates merely to the enjoyment of the legacy or whether it is attached to the substance of the gift. Where it is attached to the substance of the gift the vesting is postponed,' but where the postponement relates merely to the enjoyment of the gift, vesting takes place as of the date of the death of the testator.” (p. 371.) “In the instant case it is plain that the postponement was merely for the purpose of letting in the life interést which the testator bequeathed to the widow, and that under the rule of practically all of the authorities the residuum of the estate vested in the children as of the date of the death of the testator.” (p.374.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.