Green v. Votaw’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2002
8 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 Snodgrass v. Snodgrass · Laundreville v. Mero · Woodruff v. Brady · Security Nat. Bank v. Martin · Crockett v. Crockett
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This deed is a gratuitous grant, conditioned: (1) That same should not take effect until after the death of grantors herein, and grantors shall have absolute control over said land receiving the rents and profits there-, from, and shall have power, during their life time, to make good and valid conveyances, by deed or. otherwise. Such conveyance, if made, shall become operative on the interest conveyed, and should grantors convey by deed, then this deed shall become null and void. (2) If this estate vests in the grantee, by the deaths of the grantors, then sai4 grantee is prohibited from making any manner of conveyance until said grantee reaches the age of twenty one years, notwithstanding covenants to the contrary herein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Fox
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.