Cain v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1944
9 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 Ridgeway v. Lanphear · VanGorder v. Smith · Rusk v. Zuck · Outland v. Bowen · Cooper v. Hayes
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The intention of the testator was that his wife should have an estate for her own life in the land described in item three. The introductory words: T give and devise to my beloved wife’ are to be read in connection with the later phrase ‘All of said lands during her natural life.’ A life estate is thus created by clear and express terms.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.