Dean v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
December 1973
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lemmon v. Wilson · Peoples Nat. Bank, Greenville v. Harrison · McFadden v. McFadden · Jones v. Holland · Black v. Todd
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"when it conclusively appeared in 1910 that Alfred and Gertrude Dean would have no children, the contingent remainders were converted into vested ones and became transmissible."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Dolan
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.