Conrad v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1989
23 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the condition is void is admitted. It is contrary to the plainest principles of public policy to stipulate or provide in this way for a separation of husband and wife as a condition to the enjoyment of an estate. No separation against their will, except by divorce, is consistent with the nature of the marriage contract, which is of public as well as of private concern. But we find here nothing in the nature of a condition precedent. . . . We think she took an estate clear of conditions.” (pp. 79, 80.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Hickman
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.