Roosa v. . Harrington’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 1970 · most notably Fulton Trust Co. v. . Phillips (1916), Cammann v. . Bailey (1913)
35 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 In Re the Accounting of Crane · Moore v. Littel · Smith v. . Edwards · Matter of Tienken · Bodine v. . Brown
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It applies only where, beyond the direction for future distribution, there are no words and no provisions which import a present or vested gift, or indicate such an intent.””
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.