Tyson v. Tyson’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1944
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.
Relationships
Relies on Schettler v. . Smith · Ford v. Ford
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle is that, in order to make the future estate valid, the suspension of the power of alienation must under ■all circumstances terminate at or before the termination of the second life. It is not sufficient that it may so happen. It must so happen in every possible contingency.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eggleston v. Swartz
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.