Vanzant v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1971
20 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 Vanderveer v. Alston · Nimmo v. Stewart
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * a bequest to A. and his children, if A. has no children either at the time the will was made or when it takes effect by the death of the testator, never has been held to create any interest in after-born children as purchasers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. O'Brien
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.