Radley v. . Kuhn’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1944
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.
Relationships
Relies on Manice v. . Manice
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that where an estate in land is devised to an infant, ‘when he attains the age of twenty-one years,’ his attaining that age is not a condition precedent to the vesting of his estate, but a simple postponement of the period at which he shall take possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.