Smith v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 1917
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Avery v. . Everett · Beard v. Knox · Woodruff v. Baldwin · Town of Baltimore v. Town of Chester
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words ‘disposed of’ are not in our judgment broad and comprehensive enough to reach to and embrace that act of the law which vests the ownership of property in an heir by inheritance. . . . It is an inapt expression to say that when an estate is cast by descent on .the heir by the death of the owner it has been disposed of.” (pp. 542, 543.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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