Olson v. Lisco’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1975
7 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 Matter of N.Y., L. W.R. Co. · Lacy v. Murdock · Fowler v. . Ingersoll · Krause v. Krause · Zents v. Zents
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.
“In the construction of a will, the court is required to give effect to the true intent of the testator so far as it can be collected from the whole instrument, if such intent is consistent with the rules of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McLaughlin v. Heath
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.