Hanna v. Prewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1938
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But in this state a real controversy between .•parties in interest as to the proper construction of a will, or a suit by parties in interest to obtain the construction of ambiguous clauses in a will, although the issues between them may not have reached the point of actual controversy, has always been regarded as a legitimate subject of equity jurisdiction, and we are not disposed to modify or depart from this satisfactory rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. Moren““It is my will that if one dies without heirs that her share of my estate shall be handed over to the other two sisters or their children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prewitt v. Prewitt
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.