Chace v. Gregg’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Hailey v. Hailey (1960), Guilliams v. Koonsman (1955)
4 federal appellate · 103 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the will of Darius Gregg, Mrs. Gregg took an estate in fee, determinable upon the condition expressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. West v. Glisson
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.