Rowland v. . Rowland’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1984
16 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Its effect was to transfer the use to the two donees in fee, and upon the death of Ophelia to shift the use of her moiety to John and his heirs. By a shifting use a fee may be limited after a fee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. . Cronly“and upon the death of either one, then to the survivor and his or her heirs forever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. . Cronly
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.