Long v. Willsey’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1965
9 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 7 E.H. Smith 134 - Clay v. . Wood · Post v. . Moore · Foose v. . Whitmore · Mitchell v. Mitchell · Aldrich v. Aldrich
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Said above described homestead in the village of Preston [describing it], and said above described 80 acres of land in Crow Wing county in said state, to the said Sarah J. Miller in fee; all as provided by the terms of the last will and testament of said deceased.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the testator should be the guiding purpose in construing a will. To that end, the meaning of isolated clauses and paragraphs may be modified by the evident intention deduced from a consideration of the whole document.”
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.