Hacker v. Carlisle’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2018
24 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 Porter v. Henderson · Graves v. Wheeler · Carmack v. State · Morris v. State · McCulloch v. Roberts
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every estate in lands is to be taken as a fee simple, although the words necessary to create an estate of inheritance are not used, unless it clearly appears that a less estate was intended.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“This case was tried without a jury on stipulations and briefs of the parties and primarily documentary evidence. No testimony of any witness was admitted into evidence on any material matter. In such a situation, the appellate court sits in judgment on the evidence”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The handwritten clause does not limit the grantee’s estate to ‘for his life’ or ‘at his death.’ The language ‘is not to sell above described lands’ is certainly no indication of a life estate as such estates are as alienable as fee simple estates. And the language ‘but it is to go to his heirs’ indicates merely words of limitation or inheritance.””
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.