Dennis v. Holsapple’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1947 · most notably Pate v. Bushong (1903), Reinheimer's Estate (1919)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Grimes' Executors v. Harmon · Cheney v. Selman · Mosier v. Stoll · Watts v. Julian · Kerr v. Board of Commissioners
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““whoever shall take good care of me and maintain, nurse, clothe, and furnish me with proper medical treatment at my request, during the time of my life yet, when I shall need thé same.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““This person, it is true, depended upon the future volition of the testatrix in being chosen to perform the exacted services, and upon the consent of the latter in accepting the request, and in discharging the obligation imposed by the will; but the subsequent volition exercised by Mrs. Shull [the testatrix] in this respect cannot be deemed or considered in a legal sense as testamentary in its nature or character.””
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.