Sharman v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1939
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be a most forced construction to say that, after the death of her son, the tenant for life, she intended the property to pass away from his family and go to strangers. But this would be the result were we to-hold that the words ‘heirs of the body’ are here synonymous with ‘children,’ and that they took vested remainders transmissible to their legal representatives.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Haslett
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.