Ange v. Ange’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2014
5 federal appellate · 18 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 State v. Cochran · Braddy v. . Elliott · Lassiter v. . Jones · Hall v. . Quinn · St. James v. Bagley.
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.
“`[o]rdinarily a clause in [an instrument] will not be construed as a condition subsequent, unless it contains language sufficient to qualify the estate conveyed and provides that in case of a breach the estate will be defeated, and this must appear in appropriate language sufficiently clear to indicate that this was the intent of the parties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no language which provides for a reversion of the property to the grantors or any other person in case it ceases to be used as church property”
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.