Iles v. Iles’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Goodman v. McMillan (1952), 110 So. 2d 498 - In Re Parker's Estate (1959)
30 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 Roberts v. Mosely · Wallace v. Julier · Howe v. Sands
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.
“In construing a will, it is the intention which the testator expresses in the will that controls and not that which he might have had in mind when the will was executed. Howe v. Sands, 141 Fla. 813 , 194 So. 798 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the event my said wife, Pauline, does not survive me and I leave lawful issue from my body surviving”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in case my said wife, Pauline, should not survive me and I leave no lawful issue of my body surviving”
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.