Vaughn v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2016
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in looking at the whole will, it was the intention of the testator to give his wife a life estate in all his lands mentioned [in Item II], remainder at the death of his wife to his [son and] [grand] children, such parts of said land as he allotted to each ... to vest in them and be enjoyed by [them] upon the death of the widow.”
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.