Johnson v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1989 · most notably Corrigan v. Buckley (1926), Keogh v. Peck (1925)
3 federal appellate · 58 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Manice v. . Manice · Underwood v. . Curtis · Henderson v. . Henderson · Cruikshank v. . Home for the Friendless · Steib v. Whitehead
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is, that where a devise is made in fee, either of a legal or an equitable interest, all limitations tending to¡ deprive the estate of any of the incidents appertaining to the interest created are held to be repugnant to the devise, and void. To transfer a fee and at the same time to restrict the free alienation of it, is to say thait a party can give and not give, in the same breath.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Barrett“Terms of years may be created to commence in futuro; but, if the condition upon which they are to arise is uncertain, and may not happen within the limits fixed by the rule against perpetuities, such terms are void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.