Cropley v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 167 · 1873
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1977 · most notably McArthur v. Scott (1885), Uterhart v. United States (1916)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The real estate having been directed by the will to be converted into money, it is to be regarded for all the purposes of this case as if it were money at the time of the death of the testator. That it was not to be sold until after the termination of two successive life estates does not affect the application of the principle. Equity regards substance and not form, and considers that as done which is required to be done. The sale being directed absolutely, the time is immaterial.” (Cropley v. Cooper, 86 U.S. [19 Wall.] 167, 174, 22 L.Ed. 109 [1874].)”
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.