Postlethwaite v. Edson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1955
4 federal appellate · 17 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 McNutt v. McComb · Ernst v. Foster · Bullock v. Wiltberger · Roberts v. Roberts · Little v. Giles
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mary Edson survived her husband, remaining in possession of the homestead during her life. She left the defendants as her sole heirs who claim no homestead rights. The plaintiff takes the position that the will devised a life estate to Mary Edson with full power of disposition, remainder to the defendants, and if this be the proper construction it is conceded that the property is subject to be taken in this action.” (p. 445.)”
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.