Peer v. Hennion’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1999
1 federal appellate · 5 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.
“The said lands hereinbefore given by me to my daughter Catherine are given for and during her natural life, and after her decease I do give and devise the said lands to such person or persons as shall be her heirs of land held by her in fee-simple.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“after her, Catherine's, death I do give and devise the said land to her heirs,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I do give and devise the said land to such persons,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.