Handley v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
91 F. 948 · 1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1943
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Francois Fenelon v. The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia · Jones v. Habersham · Girard v. Philadelphia · Williamson's Estate · Frazier v. St. Luke's Church
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the rest and residue of my estate I give, devise, and bequeath to the city of Winchester, Virginia, to be accumulated by said city for the period of twenty years. The income arising from said residue estate to be expended and laid out in said city,in ihe erection of school houses for ihe education of the poor.’'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Handley v. Palmer
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.