Slingluff v. Johns’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably McElroy v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. (1962), Patchell v. Groom (1945)
30 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 Larmour v. Rich · Demill v. Reid · Waters v. Waters · Reiff v. Strite · Commercial Building & Loan Ass'n v. Mackenzie
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“revert to my children who may survive, or to the descendants of their children, and be equally divided between them,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patchell v. Groom“a very faint glimpse of a different intention in the context”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patchell v. Groom
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.