Benolken v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2025
17 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 In Re Estate of Trickett · In Re Estate of Hassell · Estate of Lindsay · In Re Estate of Minear · Wadsworth v. Brigham
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When any testator omits to provide in his will for any of his children, or for the issue of any deceased child, unless it appears that such omission was intentional, such child or the issue of such child, must have the same share in the estate of the testator as if he had died intestate * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I hereby give and bequeath unto each of my heirs at law not elsewhere herein mentioned or provided for, the sum of $1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.