Elder v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1983
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was manifestly the intention of the testator, ‘that the privilege and assistance’ of his minor children, till they should be able to support themselves, should be secured by a charge on the estate, before any division should be made.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“wishing that my minor children may have the same privilege and assistance that the older children have enjoyed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.