Landram v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
203 U.S. 56 · 1906
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006 · most notably United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co (1924), Le Tulle v. Scofield (1940)
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · McArthur v. Scott · Jones v. Habersham · Mount Pleasant v. Beckwith · Ould v. Washington Hospital for Foundlings
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be a strong thing to say that we gather from this will an intent that, if the trust so far as it concerns the testator’s descendants should fail because they prefer to take the property by intestacy free from the limitations of the will, therefore the one gift outside his family should be defeated also. The trust is not a metaphysical entity, or a Prince Rupert’s drop, which flies to pieces if broken in any part.””
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.