Neves v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
50 U.S. 196 · 1850
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably McNutt v. McNutt (1888), Neves v. Scott (1851)
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Bunn v. Winthrop · Bradish v. Gibbs · Duffy v. Insurance Co. · Bleeker v. Bingham
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The result of all the cases, I think, will show that if, • from the circumstances under which the marriage articles were entered into by the parties, or as collected from the face of the instrument itself, it appears to have been intended that the collateral relatives, in a given event, should take the estate and a proper limitation to that effect is contained in them} a court of equity will enforce the trust for their benefit.” (underscoring ours.)”
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.