Napier v. Eigel’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1977
18 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 Trautz v. Lemp · Commonwealth Trust Co. v. DuMontimer · Cartall v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. · 219 Mo. App. 51 - Estate of Martin v. Martin · Bunker v. Fidelity National Bank & Trust Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A mere uncompleted intention to grant an interest at death, or some time in the future, or upon the happening of some contingency is not enough. Nor do we think that proof of intention alone, even to grant a present interest, would suffice without proof of conduct showing the carrying out or fulfillment of that intention.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newcombe v. Farmer
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.