Lemon v. Lemon’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably 7 Cal. 3d 473 - Willard v. First Church of Christ, Scientist (1972), Ogle v. Barker (1946)
28 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 Snoddy v. Bolen · Smith v. Furbish · The West Point Iron. Co. v. . Reymert · Utter v. Sidman · Bridger v. . Pierson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It results that (a) the rents; profits, and possession of the land sued for inure to the heirs or to the devisees of Joseph R. Lemon deceased, during the life of the defendant; (b) that such right is„ however, subject to the defendant’s dower rights in. said land; and (c) that the plaintiff Alphonso VI/emon, or (since he is dead) his heirs, are entitled to the remainder in fee in this land after the death of the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Meade“In order for [the wife] to take anything by this deed, she must either (a) have had the estate herself beforehand and reserved it or had it reserved for her in this grant, or (b) her husband (who actually had it) must have conveyed it to her by this deed. Since the first condition did not exist and the second never happened, [the wife] took nothing, and there was reserved for her nothing beyond what she had already.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Halbrook v. Halbrook
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.