Winslow v. Rutherford’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1948
7 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 Provenchere's Appeal
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-known rule of law that an interest shall be construed to be vested rather than contingent. We quote from one of the highest authorities : “ ‘It is a well-known general rule that an interest shall be construed to be vested, rather than contingent. Or, to express the rule more precisely, that in doubtful cases an interest shall, if it possibly can consistently with other rules of law, be construed to be vested in the first instance, rather than contingent; but, if it cannot be construed as vested in the first instance that at least it shall be construed to become vested as early as possible.’ Smith, Exec. Int. § 200.””
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.