Everitt v. . Everitt’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1965 · most notably Peters v. Bain (1890), Smith v. . Edwards (1882)
1 federal appellate · 93 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gilman v. . Reddington · Kane v. Gott · Hawley v. James · Tyson v. . Blake · Tucker v. . Bishop
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§1. “The absolute ownership of personal property shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance and until the termination of not more than two lives in being ... at the death of the testator.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clancy v. O'Gara
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.