Early v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1982
1 district · 10 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The expression ‘whoever has been his best friend’ is too indefinite for any one to determine who was intended as the object of the testatrix’s bounty. The law requires the beneficiary of a testator to be pointed out with certainty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Remsberg“should die without heirs, I want it to go to whoever has been his best friend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Long's Estate
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.