Feit v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1985
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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a restraint limited to a reasonable period of time would not be void. If it were necessary to decide the question thus suggested, I should be inclined to the conclusion that the intended restraint on alienation in this case is not an absolute restraint, but one limited to a period of time, viz., the life of the longest liver of complainant's sisters and that during that period, the complainant is restrained from selling without the consent of the sisters then surviving.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At the most the sale would be ineffective to pass complainant's title without the consent required. Whether it would do so or not would be a question between complainant and his grantee. Neither his sisters nor the representatives of any of them would have any right to contest such a sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is my will that none of the real estate shall be sold by any of my children, that I have herein devised to them, without first obtaining a full written consent of all the children or the remainder of them.”
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.