Schettler v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently January 1973 · most notably Tilden v. . Green (1891), Herzog v. . Title Guarantee Trust Co. (1903)
102 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The absolute ownership of personal property shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever for a longer period than during the continuance and until the termination of not more than two lives. * * * ” 1 Rev. St. (1st Ed.) 773, pt. 2, c. 4, tit. 4, § 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simpson v. Trust Co.
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.