Boggess v. Crail’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1987
17 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 Russell v. Tipton · Fulton v. Teager · Kellar v. Stanley · Eastern Gulf Oil Co. v. Lovelace · Grubbs v. Grubbs
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * But while a contingent interest may be conveyed or devised, * * * yet, if the grantor or devisor dies before it becomes effective, and no estate has ever vested in him, the grantee or devisee takes nothing. No right having ever vested in the devisor or grantor, nothing passes. It is merely a devise or grant that may become effective if the devise to him becomes so; and, this never having taken place in this case, it results that the appellant has no right to any part of the estate in contest. Judgment affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rutherford v. Keith“It is settled by the cases that an estate granted on condition of the performance of future duties will not be defeated by anything less than the refusal or failure of the grantee to perform the duties. If nonperformance was not the fault of the grantee, but the result of conditions over which he had no control, the grant is not defeated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cravens v. Cravens
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.