Van Beuren v. . Dash’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1971 · most notably In Re the Accounting of Tamargo (1917), In Re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wells (1889)
32 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 Coster v. Lorillard
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word `descendants' has reference to genealogy, or the succession of persons in the family relation, and has no necessary connection with the laws of inheritance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Lamb
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.