Harvey v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Cross v. O'Cavanagh (1945), Dailey v. Houston (1963)
30 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 Cummings v. Cummings · U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Douglas' Trustee · Bailey v. Sanger · Branton v. Buckley · Kelley v. Vigas
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where an interest or estate is given in one clause of a will in clear and decisive terms, it cannot be taken away or cut down by raising a doubt upon the meaning and application of a subsequent clause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent words that are not as clear and decisive as the words giving the interest or estate.”
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.