Reilly v. Bristow’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2001
2 federal appellate · 18 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 In Re the Accounting of Crane · 14 E.H. Smith 315 - Clark v. . Cammann · Larmour v. Rich · Straus v. Rost · Hale v. Hobson
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.
“of universal or imperative application, and depends upon whether it will support or defeat the intention of the testator as deduced from the whole will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Gradwohl
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.