Braley v. Spragins’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Ussery v. Darrow (1939), Mudd v. Lanier (1945)
44 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 Hodge v. Joy · Benjamin Story v. Louisa Livingston · Sandlin v. Anders · Lowery v. May · Pearce v. Pearce
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever doubts may have been entertained of the correct rulings of this court, heretofore made, on the question we are considering, those doubts are resolved by the statute copied above [§ 1325, Rev. Code, 1595, the same as § 6928, Code of 1928, we interpolate], so far as that statute extends. Where a life-estate is created, and an absolute power of disposition conferred on the life-tenant, this enlarges the life-estate into a fee; not absolutely, but in favor, and only in favor, of the creditors of, and purchasers from the life-tenant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nevin v. Nevin“This Court has held that a power of disposition is limited, and not within the terms of said sections (§ 6928 Code of 1928now § 35-4-292, Code of 1975) where the power conferred is limited to a disposition during the life of the donee of the power, and where there is no power to devise the property by will. (Citing cases).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nevin v. Nevin
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.