Housman v. Measley’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
December 1991
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Devilbiss · Macgill v. Hyatt · Pole ex rel. Pole v. Simmons
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What the court was asked to do was to determine whether appellee has such an interest in the estate disposed of by the will as to entitle her to have issues tried as to the validity of the will; and in this were involved the questions as to the validity and effect of the agreement set out.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kaouris v. Kaouris
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.