Glass v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Gahan v. Golden (1928), 46 Ill. App. 3d 186 - Pfeffer v. Lebanon Land Development Corp. (1977)
9 federal appellate · 18 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 Sweeney v. . Warren · Hamlin v. United States Express Co. · Wolfer v. Hemmer · Giles v. Anslow · Becker v. Becker
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * an exception to the rule that a testator may not impose a total restraint upon marriage as a condition of a devise * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.