Cushing v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1950 · most notably Doctor v. . Hughes (1919), Estate of Smith (1891)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Croxall v. Shererd · Bowen v. Chase · Neves v. Scott · Tillinghast Dailey, Trustees v. Coggeshall Lippitt
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.
“Curtesy is a legal incident of the wife's estate of inheritance, and is a right favored in the law. A husband will not be excluded from rights in the property of the wife springing from the marital relation, except by words that leave no doubt of the intention to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The doctrine of courts of equity is that equitable estates are considered, to all intents and purposes, as legal estates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.