Ide v. Ide’s Empirical Analysis
1809
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1969 · most notably Mulvane v. Rude (1896), William v. Beck (1843)
1 federal appellate · 82 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hawley v. Inhabitants of Northampton
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If this construction required any support, it might be added that the limitation over is as well of personal property as of real estate; and there can be no doubt, from the nature of the personal estate, that the testator considered it liable to the disposition of Peleg, and that at his death no part of ft might be in his possession, as the devise of it was absolute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clow v. Hosier
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.