Wright v. Gaskill’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1969
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This devise is of a life estate in the first devisees with a remainder to their lineal descendants in indefinite succession and creates an estate tail at common law, and is regulated by the eleventh section of the statute of descent, which gives an estate for life to the first taker, and a remainder in fee to his children in equal shares. Zabriskie v. Wood, 23 N.J. Eq. ( 8 C.E. Gr. ) 541, 551.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sandford v. Stagg
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.