Reynolds v. Phipps’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2024
11 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 De Hasque v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. · Watson v. Stone
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1130Í. Descent and Distribution. * * * Provided, that if the decedent shall have been married more than once, the spouse at the time of death shall inherit of the property not acquired during coverture with such spouse only an equal part with each of the living children of decedent, and the lawful issue of any deceased child by right of representation. * * *” (Oomp. St. 1921, sec. 11301).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tarman v. Pierce““A thing may be within the letter ■of the law, and yet not within the law, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elkins v. Hardin
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.