Long v. Disque’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1972
4 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 Wood's Estate · Savela v. Erickson · Nixon's Estate · Minnig v. Batdorff · Johrden v. Pond
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a trust is created to receive the rents and profits of lands, and no valid direction for accumulation is given, the surplus of such rents and profits, beyond the sum necessary for the education and support of the person for whose benefit the trust is created, shall be subject in equity to the claims of his creditors, in the same manner as other personal property which cannot be reached by an execution at law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * when there is a person in being who would have an immediate right to the possession of the lands upon the ceasing of the intermediate or precedent estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not unlawful to postpone the vesting of the remainder until the life estate ends.”
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.