Webster v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1966 · most notably In Re Irvine's Estate (1943), Arendt v. Arendt (1906)
34 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 Succession of Ehrenberg
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine is now too well settled to need argument or authority to sustain it, that an instrument may be in the form of a deed, signed, sealed, and delivered as such; still, if it discloses the intention of the maker respecting the posthumous destination of his property, and is not to operate until after his death, it is testamentary only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elrod v. Schroader“To the validity of a will, the law does not require it should assume any particular form, or that any technically appropriate language should be used therein if the intention of the maker is disclosed, and the destination of his property at his death is described.”
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.