Heney v. Manion’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1958
4 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 Roberts v. Lewis · Ernst v. Foster · Bowser v. Mattler · Draper v. Morris · Skinner v. McDowell
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.
““It is true that in construing wills where irreconcilably repugnant provisions appear in the' same instrument, courts have upon occasions resorted to the somewhat arbitrary rule that the later expression of testamentary intent shall prevail over the earlier. But this rule when followed, is adopted only as a last resort and then only for the purpose of avoiding a complete frustration of the testator’s wish.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Culver v. Elliott
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.