Smith v. . Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1961 · most notably In Re the Accounting of Buechner (1919), In Re the Accounting of Crane (1900)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 128 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Manice v. . Manice · Warner v. . Durant · Everitt v. . Everitt · Tucker v. . Bishop · People v. Cardona
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It has been often held that, if futurity is annexed to the substance of the gift, the vesting is suspended.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re L'Hommedieu · Palms v. Palms““While we are to encourage, always, a construction which leans to the vesting of legacies, and seek diligently for evidences of such purpose and intention, we must still construe the will, and not make it over to suit our own notions of what might have been wisest.””
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.