Seaward v. . Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably Tillman v. . Ogren (1920), Vincent v. Rix (1928)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 62 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSeaward v. Davis
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. . Wiggins · Swarthout v. . Ranier
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is doubtless true that ordinarily a life tenant in possession of personal property is a trustee to preserve the principal for the remaindermen to whom it may pass on his death.”
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.