Holmes v. MacKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1997
14 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 Barnum v. Barnum · Dulany v. Middleton · Lavender v. Rosenheim · Reilly v. Bristow · Fulton v. Harman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle is elementary that a general residuary clause will be held to preclude intestacy as to any part of the estate, unless the clear intent of the will prevents such a construction. As the words ‘rest and residue’ are in themselves comprehensive enough to include any interest in the estate of the testator not previously devised or bequeathed, ‘the safest course,’ to use the language of Lord Eldon, ‘is to abide by the words unless upon the whole will there is something amounting almost to demonstration that the plain meaning of the words is not the meaning of the testator.’ ””
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.