Powers v. Scharling’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2009
18 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 Wall v. Wall · American Central Ins. v. McLanathan · Cleveland v. Obenchain · Robinson v. Schly · Jordan v. Jordan's Adm'r
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining whether an instrument be a deed or will, the question is, Did the maker intend to convey any estate or interest whatever to vest before his death and upon the execution of the paper? Or, on the other hand, did he intend that all the interest and estate should take effect only after his death? If the former, it is a deed; if the latter, a will.” (p. 343.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““I desire and design to, and I do by this paper writing (both a will and a deed), create, convey to, and vest in, my beloved daughter, Harriet Campbell, a present interest and estate in and to all the estate of which I am now or shall be at the time of my death seized, or to which I am now or shall be then entitled, to the extent of one-half thereof, always, however, subject to the payment of the said debts, expenses and legacies heretofore mentioned, and also to a life-estate in me for and during .the period of my natural life, and this present interest and estate I make upon a good, valuable and sufficient consideration from said Harriet Campbell, in addition to the consideration of natural love and affection I bear toward her.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powers v. Scharling
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.