Edwards v. Slocum’s Empirical Analysis
264 U.S. 61 · 1924
Citation profile
132 federal appellate · 34 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 397 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Ithaca Trust Co. v. United States (1929), Reinecke v. Northern Trust Co. (1929)
132 federal appellate · 34 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Knowlton v. Moore
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 397 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It comes into existence before and is independent of the receipt of the property by the legatee. It taxes, as Hanson, Death Duties, puts it in a passage cited in 178 U. S. 49 , 20 S. Ct. 751 , 44 L. Ed. 969 , ‘not the interest to which some person succeeds on. a death, hut the interest which ceased by reason of the death.’ ””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“algebraic formulae are not lightly to be imputed to legislators,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the value of the net estate . . . upon the transfer of the net estate of every decedent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nichols v. Coolidge
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.