Elder v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2012
14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Oliver v. Wells · South Norwalk Trust Co. v. St. John · Friend's Estate · Hogan v. . Curtin · Rudd v. Searles
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here there is no statute to the contrary and where the condition affixed to a testamentary gift violates no established rule of law or public policy”
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.