Robinson v. Eagle’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1988
19 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every interest in real estate granted or devised to two or more persons other than executors and trustees as such shall be in tenancy in common unless expressly declared in such grant or devise to be a joint tenancy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davies v. Johnson
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.