Peabody v. Burri’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1988
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 Bates v. Gillett · Warfield v. Lindell · Hall v. Waterman · Mettler v. Miller · Zirngibl v. Calumet & Chicago Canal & Dock Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A will, the same as a deed, may be color of title. (Baldwin v. Ratcliff, supra.) A devise of all lands belonging to the testator in this State will by that general description pass to the devisee title to all such lands belonging to the testator at the time of his death, but such devise will not constitute color of title under the Limitation law. (Holbrook v. Forsythe, 112 Ill. 306 .) The will must furnish a sufficient description to identify the land, (Waterman Hall v. Waterman, 220 Ill. 569 ,) without recourse to other writings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.