Young v. . Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1922
1 federal appellate · 5 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the instrument is proven, and the probate is certified as prescribed by law, and it is registered in the proper county, the essential purpose of registration and the law is served, and this is sufficient, notwithstanding some of the non-essential yet helpful forms to be observed between the probate and registration of the instrument have been omitted. The Legislature certainly has power to make forms essential; but unless it shall do so in plain terms, the failure to observe them, especially where they appear from their nature or terms to be directory, will not be allowed to defeat the chief purpose of a salutary statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. . Burch
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.