Selzer v. Selzer’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably Clutter v. Hill (1947), Harkrader v. Johnson (1947)
43 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 Rierson v. Southern Kansas Stage Lines Co. · Brown v. Brown · Schubach v. Hammer · Crowley v. Nixon · Stringer v. Gamble
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A rula for the interpretation of wills, to which all other rules must yield, is that, the intention of the testator must control. In order to ascertain that intention it is the duty of the courts to consider the1 will as a whole and to give to its various provisions such construction, if reasonably possible to do so, as will effectuate rather than defeat the intention of the testator.” (Syl. If 1.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tomb v. Bardo · Johnson v. Muller
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.