Elsea v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably 19 Ill. App. 3d 1055 - Foster v. Englewood Hospital Ass'n (1974), Harrison v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (1936)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 Dean v. Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad · Bailey v. Kansas City · State ex rel. West v. Diemer · Weiermueller v. Scullin · Eckle v. Ryland
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An estate in fee having been created, a remainder cannot be limited thereon because the latter must have a particular estate to support it; any other limitation, whether 'it be'in the -nature of an executory interest or other defeasance, being inconsistent with the complete sovereignty of the' owner of the fee 'over the land' and his consequent unlimited right of alienation, cannot be attached to the estate and'if attempted to be created, is void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Triplett v. Triplett
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.