Crist v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1976
19 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 Hancock v. Butler · Seay v. Cockrell · Lacey v. Floyd · Simonton v. White · May v. Ritchie
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The uniform conclusion is reached that no matter how clear and unequivocal the language by which a life estate only, is sought to be given to the ancestor, this purpose and intention is overturned by granting in the same instrument a remainder to his heirs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finley v. Finley“In that case Judge Roberts elaborately reviewed the rule in Shelley's Case in many of its phases, but finally concluded his opinion with this statement: `What is decided now is, that the words "lawful issue,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sybert v. Sybert
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.