Sands v. Fly’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2018
10 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 Feeney's Estate · Burton v. Kinney · 9 Smith & H. 1 - Tramell v. Tramell · 33 Tenn. App. 333 - Harris v. France · First Nat. Bank of Springfield v. Pointer
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Regarding] the distinction between a contingent and vested remainder, the former is only a possibility or prospect of an estate, which exists when what would otherwise be a vested remainder is subject to a condition precedent, or is created in favor of an uncertain person or persons. Tiffany on Real Property, Third Edition, Vol. 2, Section 320. The same author says: ‘A contingent remainder becomes a vested remainder so soon as the condition precedent is satisfied, or the person or persons to take ascertained, the particular estate still existing.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A devise by which property is tied up and made inalienable beyond the period within a life or lives in being and twenty-one years, with a fraction of a year added for the term of gestation in cases of posthumous birth, is void as creating a perpetuity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Court cannot make a different will for her under the guise of construing it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.