Huffman v. Huffman’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children of Texas v. Stahl (1980), Stewart v. Selder (1971)
159 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 Schelb v. Sparenberg · Byars v. Byars · Gilkey v. Chambers · Kostroun v. Plsek · Huffman v. Huffman
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Assuming that there is a valid will to be construed, it is the place of the court to find the meaning of such will, and not under guise of construction or under general powers of equity to assume to correct or redraft the will in which testator has expressed his intentions.’ ””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the Texas decisions are liberal in the construction of wills, and the courts of Texas go a long way in the relaxation of the rules of construction of wills to arrive at the manifest intention of the testator, especially when the will is written by a layman, courts are limited to the intent found within the will itself and may not redraft the will.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taliaferro v. Mayer · Gee v. Read
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.