Leaf v. Leaf’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
10
states following
June 1934
most recently cited
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1934 · most notably Grand Lodge Ancient Order of United Workmen v. McFadden (1908), Supreme Council Catholic Benevolent Legion v. Murphy (1903)
31 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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.