Cody v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2007
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 In Re the Accounting of Russell · Post v. Herbert's Executors · In re the estate of Buzby · 134 N.J. Eq. 138 - Barrett v. Barrett · Kahn v. Rockhill
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determinable on an event which must necessarily happen.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] vested remainder is defined as one to which there is a present fixed right to future enjoyment of property though that enjoyment be postponed until the expiration of a prior estate. A contingent remainder on the other hand, is one in which the person to take is not in esse or ascertained, or the event upon which enjoyment is to take place is uncertain, or both. [Id. at 96-97, 65 A.2d 750 (citations omitted).]”
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.