Sheridan v. Krause’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Tate v. Hain (1943), Jackson v. Fidelity and Deposit Co. (2005)
4 federal appellate · 15 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 Coffman's Adm'r v. Coffman · Dillard v. Dillard · Hutchinson v. Maxwell · Hall's Estate · Sparhawk v. Cloon
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing a will there are two inquiries to be made. The first is, What is the intention of the testator as expressed by him in the words he has used? ‘This is the animating spirit, the essence, the soul of the will. The words are the clothing, the mere vehicle used, to convey his ideas. When we once ascertain the intention of the testator, that is the governing principle, and must prevail, unless it violates some rule of law.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The new part of section 5157 is clearly remedial and not restrictive, and is to be so interpreted. As we interpret it, the intention of the General Assembly in enacting the new matter contained in section 5157 was not merely to provide a begrudged exception to the application of the doctrine of Hutchinson v. Maxwell or to the rule laid down in the old part of that section as it had been interpreted by this court in that case. Its intention was to make a material change in the public policy of the state on this subject, and to liberalize and humanize the rule of Hutchinson v. Maxwell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.