Hildreth v. Hildreth’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Cecil's Executors v. Anhier (1917), Langford's v. Miles (1920)
31 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 Childers' v. Cartwright
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To permit the verdict to stand in this case would, be to allow the jury to dispose of the testator’s property in a manner that would not accord with his intentions, which he was clearly competent to-express as shown by the instrument itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Combs v. Combs““It is difficult to understand how one part of the will could be rejected for want of testamentary capacity on the part of the testator, and another part of it, made at the same time and no more plainly expressed, be admitted to probate. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irvine v. Greenway
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.