Doe v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
1828
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1945
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases of latent ambiguity, I do not observe in the books any exclusion of this kind of proof, (the declarations of the testator). The cases where such declarations or instructions have been excluded are cases where there was no ambiguity at all; but an attempt was made to shew a mistake in drawing the will.””
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.