Cummings v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Bullock v. Wiltberger (1914), Baley v. Strahan (1924)
5 federal appellate · 19 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 Knight v. Pottgieser · Haward v. Peavey · Orr v. Yates · Blatchford v. Newberry · Slocum v. Hagaman
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not removed unless it is in some manner destroyed, as by renunciation or refusal to take, or by its being defeated by some event which takes away the right of the life tenant to hold the property prior to his decease, where the instrument creating the life tenancy has provided that such event should terminate that tenancy, or where the life tenant has failed in the performance of duties upon the performance of which the life tenancy depends. The conveyance of the life estate to another does not amount to a destruction or removal thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keeton v. Tipton
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.