Ellis v. Cary’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 1941 · most notably Burns v. . McCormick (1922), 46 Cal. App. 178 - Mayborne v. Citizens Trust & Savings Bank (1920)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Wallace v. Long · Reynolds v. . Robinson · Robinson v. . Raynor · Brandeis v. Neustadtl · Clark v. Davidson
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The agreement alleged in the complaint or claim of Mrs. Ellis, and found by the court to have been made, is, in substance, that if Mrs. Ellis would keep the house of the deceased and take care of him during the residue of his life, he would devise and bequeath to her all his real and personal property as compensation for such services. The agreement was oral. When it was made, and when John Gorman died, his estate consisted of both real and personal property, but the most of it was real estate.” . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Messier v. Messier
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.