Richburg’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1978
9 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 Look · Estate of Meier · Trinitarian Congregational Church · Marston · Coy
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to dispose of my clothing and other personal articles and effects as he (the executor) in his sole discretion may deem best”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Moody's Will“It is the fact of the benefit, direct or contingent, and not the measure of its value, which controls.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Moody's Will
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.