Bradshaw v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1932
12 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 Harvey v. Bell · Mercantile Bank of New York v. Ballard's Assignee · Pruitt v. Holland · Ferguson v. Thomason · Hart v. Thompson's Adm'r
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the purpose of construing a will is to arrive at the intention of the testator, yet, in seeking the intention of the testator we must construe the language of the will in tile light of the uniform rules of interpretation adopted by this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardin's v. Hardin
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.