Pippin v. . Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1971
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I give and bequeath to Lydia Wyatt, all the balance of my property during her natural life, and at her death it is my will and desire, that the said property loaned to my said wife, shall be sold by my executor, with the exception of one acre of land, and the money, arising from the sale of said property, (77) to remain in the possession of my executor, in trust for the benefit of my daughter, Keziah Roby,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurdle v. . Outlaw“choses in action are excluded, taking the word to have been used in its legal sense; and that such was his meaning, is made still more manifest by the direction that all said property, at the death of his wife, shall be sold , and the moneys arising from the sale, applied,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurdle v. . Outlaw“has a broader signification than the word property: The former includes choses in action: The latter does not: and in reference to personalty, is confined to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurdle v. . Outlaw
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.