Schmieder v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1962
20 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 Security Trust Co. v. Lovett · Redmond v. Gummere · Johnston v. Hyde · Trenton Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Moore · Trenton Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Moore
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the vice-chancellor that by the terms of the will the children of the testator took a vested estate. It is also our opinion that this vested estate would have become absolute and indefeasible if the children of the testator had lived to the time of the death or remarriage of the widow which is the time fixed in the will for the period of distribution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“After the death of my said wife, my said estate shall be divided equally between my said children, share and share alike, and if any child dies leaving lawful issue such grandchild or children shall receive the share or portion of the parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fisch v. Fisch“although the estate in remainder vests in the children at the time of the testator's death, it is subject to be divested if the beneficiary dies before the time for distribution arrives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.