Meakings v. . Cromwell’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1947
14 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 Craig v. Leslie · Stagg v. Jackson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A devisor may give to his devisee either land, or the price of land, at his pleasure, and the devisee must receive it in the quality in which it is given, and cannot intercept the purpose of the devisor. ‘Where a devisor directs his land to he sold, and the produce divided between A. and B., the obvious purpose of the testator is, that there shall1 be a sale for the convenience of division; and A. and B. take their several interests as money, and not land. So, if A. dies in the lifetime of the devisor, and the heir stands in his place, the purpose of the devisor that there shall be a sale for the convenience of division, still applies to the case, and the heir will take the share of it, as A. would have taken it, as money and not land.’ * * * By the settled doctrine of equitable conversion, the testator gives money and not land, * * * and the gift is, for all substantial purposes, a legacy.””
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.