Pike v. Wassell’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 711 · 1876
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1994 · most notably Casey v. Galli (1876), Heidritter v. Elizabeth Oil-Cloth Co. (1884)
1 federal appellate · 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Wallach v. Van Riswick · Varney v. Stevens · Delano v. Kennedy
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendants admit that they have determined not to pay the taxes upon the property. The danger of incumbrance by reason of this failure to perform their duties as tenants for life is, therefore, imminent, and the case a proper one for a court of equity to interfere and grant appropriate relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended for the benefit of his heirs exclusively, to enable them to take the inheritance after his death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. French v. Wade
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.