Van Der Karr v. Stead’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1992
14 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 Lacaze v. Hardee
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is now well settled that an heir’s undivided share or interest in a succession may be seized and sold under execution, the only limitation being that the proceeding must concern the whole of the heir’s rights in the succession, subject to the charges with which the succession is burdened, and not a specific part of the property inherited by the heir.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purchaser of the heir's interest in the said succession then takes the place of the heir.”
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.