Leeper v. Leeper’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Sharpe v. Smith (1961), Ott v. Pickard (1951)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Hockaday v. Lynn · Clarkson v. Hatton · Norman v. Horton · Brock v. Dorman · Utter v. Sidman
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tendency of modern decisions is to disregard technicalities and to treat all uncertainties in a conveyance as ambiguities to be cleared up by resort to the intention of the parties as gathered, from the instrument itself, the circumstances attending and leading up to its execution and the subject matter and the situation of the parties as of that time.” [5].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hooks v. Spies
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.