Shane v. Withers's Legatees’s Empirical Analysis
1835
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1961
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.
““However this may be, generally speaking, it cannot be doubted, according to the seisin granted to the executors in the present instance, that the word ‘estate’ was used as an expression of the same sense and meaning which would follow from the term ‘succession.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Blair
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.