Keeler v. Lauer’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1973 · most notably Harkrader v. Johnson (1947), United States v. Powell (1962)
6 federal appellate · 26 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 Potter v. Couch · Proctor v. Dicklow · Barnitz's Lessee v. Robert Casey · Lockard v. Stephenson · J. B. Watkins Land Mortgage Co. v. Mullen
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having no statute on the subject, the common-law rule prevails, under which the contingent interest must become vested within a life or lives in being and twenty-one years afterward, to which, under some circumstances, is added the period of gestation.” (p. 393.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““With this consent Mrs. Heilbrun had a complete right to dispose of all her property by will.” ( 73 Kan. 396 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chilson v. Rogers
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.