Whitney v. Lott’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2001
22 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 Riggs v. . Palmer · Perry v. Strawbridge · Eversole v. Eversole · Carpenter's Estate · McAllister v. Fair
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so essential to the observance of morality and justice has been universally recognized in the laws of civilized communities for centuries and is old as equity. Its sentiment is ageless”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * This principle averts the reproach of permitting a criminal to profit by his perfidy and the censure of an evasion of the statutes of wills, descent or distribution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or take advantage of his own wrong, or found any claim upon his own iniquity, or profit by his own crime;”
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.