McKenzie v. Rathbun’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2012
21 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 Dean v. Rounds · Duvoll v. Wilson · In re Estate of Heydenfeldt · Hedger v. Judy · In re the Appeal of Wisner
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Some stress is laid upon the direction in the first clause of the will to ‘pay all my just debts,’ but in this case we attach little importance to the words used in the formal manner in which they are used. They are much like the formal, meaningless terms of endearment and pious phrases printed in the formal part of blanks for making wills.””
2 later decisions 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.