Lightfoot v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1955
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Greenway v. White · Harvey v. Bell · Atkinson v. Kern · Ewering v. Ewering · Prather v. Watson's
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is no intervening estate, and no other' period to which the words ‘dying without issue’’ can be reasonably said to have reference, they are. held, in the absence of something in the will showing a contrary purpose, to create‘a defeasible fee [in the first taker], which may be defeated by the death of the devisee at any time without issue surviving him.””
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.