Scales v. . Barringer’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1969
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is uncertainty as to the person or persons who will be entitled to enjoy the remainder, or if a conditional element is made a part of the description of the remainder, it is contingent.”
1 later decision 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.