Reed v. Hazleton’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1973
21 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 Kinnebrew's Distributees v. Kinnebrew's Administrators · Sperber v. Balster · McKinney v. Settles
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an instrument of writing passes a present interest in real estate, although the right to its possession and enjoyment may not accrue until some future time, it is a deed or contract, but if the instrument does not pass an interest or right until the death of the maker, it is a will, or testamentary paper.” (p. 325.)”
2 later decisions 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.