Clark v. Mack’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1953
23 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 Defreese v. Lake · Jones v. Jones · Glover v. Reid · Gadd v. Stoner · Morford v. Dieffenbacker
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legatees, Emily A. Coe and Esther A. Coe, under the will, took an absolute estate in fee simple, and that by reason of both of the said legatees having died before the death of the testatrix the legacy lapsed, and the estate became intestate, and should be divided among the heirs of the deceased, as provided by the statutes of this State, in case of intestate estates.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Wagar's Estate“A will speaks from the death of the testator, and the estate vests at that time, unless the will contains some provision to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hay v. Hay
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.