Ladd v. Weiskopf’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1967 · most notably Adelaide Tilt v. Otto Kelsey (1907), Shattuck v. Shattuck (1948)
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Moore v. . Williams · Greenwood v. Murray · Chesman v. Cummings · Methodist Episcopal Church Home v. Thompson · Huntsman v. Hooper
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * where courts have refused to compel specific performance on the ground of doubt on a question of law arising upon the construction or legal effect of record muniments of title, it has been where not only was the doubt a grave one, but where there were interested parties not before the court, and consequently not bound by its decision, who might afterwards subject the vendee to vexatious and expensive litigation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kirsch v. Kahn““Whether this decree was in accordance with the correct construction of the will or not, it is binding and conclusive upon all persons interested in the estate of the deceased, whether under disability or not, or whether then in being or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is a clear and explicit adjudication of the main question presented to him, to wit, Avho were entitled to the property under the terms of the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.