Will on Dardis’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Cowie v. Strohmeyer (1912), Ekern v. McGovern (1913)
40 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 Scott v. West · Dodge v. Williams · 15 Tex. Civ. App. 597 - Stringfellow v. Early · In re Valentine's Will · In re the Last Will of Langevin
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Apart from the interest of the public there is also recognized by the courts an interest and right of the testator to have the directions of his will carried into effect, at least upon some subjects.” (Page 463.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Larkin““They evince a clear recognition and declaration of the legislature that there is a public policy involved in the establishment of every legally executed will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Larkin
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.