Crisman v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2004
20 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 Conrad v. Conrad's · Davis v. Kendall · Farish v. Wayman · Mowery v. Coffman · Rule v. First Nat'l Bank of Clifton Forge
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of May v. Joynes, * * [20 Gratt. (61 Va.) 692] was abolished by chapter 146, Acts 1908, page 187 (Southworth v. Sullivan, 162 Va. 325 , 173 S. E. 524 ), which act was in turn modified by section 5147 of the 1919 Code, now section 55-7 of the 1950 Code, but the statute applies only to estates expressly granted for life and does not control in this case. *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gardner v. Worrell
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.