Cassidy v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably New England Trust Company v. Sanger (1955), First Portland National Bank v. Kaler-Vaill Memorial Home (1959)
2 district · 27 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 Bryant v. Bryant · Nash v. Simpson · Porter v. Porter · Lord v. Bourne · Elder v. Elder
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the intention of the testator which must prevail in the construction of a will. But that intention must be found from the language of the will read as a whole illumined in cases of doubt by the light of the circumstances surrounding its making.””
3 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.