Schaeffer v. Schaeffer’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1986
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 Ebey v. Adams · Reiff v. Strite · Crews' Adm'r v. Hatcher · Chapman v. Chapman · Jameson v. Jameson's Adm'x
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [T]he force of ‘or their children’ is equivalent to ‘in case of their death’; that they provide those who take in place of the first legatee; that they make a condition on which the vesting of any estate depends; that they have the effect to give only a contingent remainder to [testator’s] children, preventing any estate in them at the testator’s death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowett v. McFarland
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.