8 E.H. Smith 532 - McGillis v. . McGillis’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1965
22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMcGillis v. McGillis
Relationships
Relies on 1 E.H. Smith 348 - Baer v. Hendricks · Smith v. . Edwards · Warner v. . Durant · 8 E.H. Smith 496 - Hersee v. . Simpson · Kent v. . Church of St. Michael
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Future estates are either vested or contingent. They are vested, when there is a person in being, who would have an immediate right to the possession of the lands upon the ceasing of the intermediate or precedent estate. They are contingent, whilst the person to whom, or the event upon which, they are limited to take effect remains uncertain.” 1ST. Y. Revised Sts. pt. 2. c. 1, tit. 2, Sec. 13, (previous to amendment of 1896).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. Davis
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.