Henderson v. Cadwalader’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1942
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scofield v. Olcott · Ducker v. Burnham · McCartney v. Osburn · Knight v. Pottgieser · Ebey v. Adams
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■ “Whenever the person who is to succeed to the estate in remainder is in being and is ascertained, and the event, which by express limitation will terminate the precedent estate, is certain to happen, the remainder is vested.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.