Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1970 · most notably Comer v. Light (1911), McCoy v. Houck (1912)
28 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 Craig v. Leslie · Lent v. . Howard · Heilman v. Heilman · Mulvane v. Rude · Dodge v. Williams
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the direction of the testator that the conversion shall be made which supports the fiction, and not the actual change of the property into money. Such fiction rests upon the maxim, ‘Equity considers that as done which is required to be done.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.