Platt v. Brannan’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1989
13 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 Green v. Hewitt · Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Chase · Hauser v. Craft. · Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Stich · DuPont v. DuBos
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Also,’ does not mark the beginning of a new sentence. It will be observed that there is but one set of operative words. ‘I give and devise’ occur but once, and then at the beginning of the item. They are not repeated after ‘Also.’ The portion of the item following that word must therefore be carried back to the operative words that the devise may become effective. Unless we do so there are no operative words applicable to the Missouri lots so far as concerns Samuel Platt. And if we do not recur to them, the Missouri lots, which are one of the objects of the devise, have no verb or predicate, and that verb has no subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irvine v. Irvine
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.