Root v. Mackey’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1992
3 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 Cross v. Hoch · Bean v. Kenmuir · Clark v. Ferguson · Knox College v. Jones Store Co. · Bozworth v. Wabash Railway Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No particular words are required or are necessary to create a life estate. The use of CT Page 477 the term `life estate' is not necessary, but the intention to create a life estate may be expressed in any equivalent or, appropriate language. 31 C.G.S. Estates 32 . . .”
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.