Marx v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Janovsky v. American Motorists Insurance (1952), Dravo v. Liberty Nat. Bank & Trust Co. (1954)
2 district · 24 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 Grace v. Perry · 72 Ohio App. 149 - Moskowitz v. Federman · 129 N.J. Eq. 444 - Girard Trust Co. v. Schmitz · Hoit v. Hoit · Brown v. Fidelity Union Trust Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judicial proceeding instituted to obtain an interpretation of a will has for its object the fulfillment of the testator's intention and not the avoidance of it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * and I do further request her in case she shall exercise the power of appointment by will which I have hereinabove given her, to include among the beneficiaries by her to be designated such of my own blood relations as she may deem worthy to be the recipients of her bounty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to such person or persons as my said wife, Florence, shall by her last will and testament appoint and, in case she shall fail to make such appointment,”
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.