De Peyster v. . Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1988 · most notably Smith v. . City of Rochester (1883), United States v. Loughrey (1898)
44 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not a reversion, nor is it the.possibility of reversion, nor is it any estate in the land. It is a mere right or chose in action, and,.if enforced, the grantor would be in by a forfeiture of a condition, and not by a reverter. . . . It is only by statute that the assignee of the lessor can reenter for condition broken. But the statute only authorized the transfer of the right, and did not convert it into a reversionary interest, nor into any other estate. . . . When property is held on condition, all the attributes and incidents of absolute progoerty belong to it wntil the condition be”
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.