Jacoby v. . Jacoby’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 1972 · most notably Messing v. Commissioner (1967), Seitz v. . Faversham (1912)
4 federal appellate · 41 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 Van Cott v. . Prentice · Roe v. . Vingut · Fisher v. . Hall · Rawson v. . Lampman · Woodgate v. . Fleet
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless there is something in this sixth clause directing an unlawful suspension of the power of alienation it is, therefore plain that the estate has vested in the five named residuary legatees, subject to the wife’s use during the minority of the youngest child, or until his earlier death, for it is well settled that a term measured by a minority ends upon the death of the minor. (Roe v. Vingut, 117 N. Y. 204 [ 22 N. E. 933 ]; Real Property Law, § 32).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodey v. Stotz
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.