Saxton v. Krumm’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Wayne v. Huber (1930), Griffith v. Benzinger (1924)
27 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 North State Copper & Gold Mining Co. v. Field · Higgins v. Carlton · Davis v. Calvert · Zimmerman v. Bitner · Hiss v. Weik
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be a great inconsistency and absurdity to accord to a testator the power to dispose of his estate in any way he may think proper, consistent with the settled principles of the law, and at the same time say that his will may be annulled if it appears that its disposition is unjust, inequitable or unaccountable. The effect of such a principle would be the practical denial of the free right of testamentary power in a very large class of cases.””
2 later decisions 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.