Estate v. Wikman’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1969
23 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 Olmsted v. Buss · 25 N.J. Eq. 501 - In re the Probate of the Will of White
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only remaining question is whether the evidence sustains the finding, under No. 4, that the cancellation was done by the testator with the intent and' purpose of revoking that part of the will by which appellant was appointed executrix. This is a finding of fact, and must be sustained if there is any reasonable amount of evidence supporting it. It appears in this case, as before stated, that the will was in the possession of the testator from the time of its execution until his death; that immediately after his death it was found among his effects in his trunk; and that when so found the ink lines were over and through the words as above described. These circumstances were sufficient to warrant the court in making the finding, and it was substantially so held by this court in Estate of Olmsted, 122 Cal. 224 ( 54 Pac. 745 ).””
1 later decision 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.