437 So. 2d 98 - Shaffer v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2006
7 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 McGuire v. Andre · United Virginia Bank v. Union Oil Co. of California · 382 So. 2d 1104 - First Alabama Bank of Montgomery v. Adams
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common law rule against perpetuities provides that no interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest. J. Gray, The Rule Against Perpetuities § 201 (4th Ed. 1952).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson v. Murphy“any right to or interest in the property until he ... exercise[s] his right of option within the time specified.”
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.