Heaston v. Krieg’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 1984 · most notably Stayner v. Nye (1949), Sprouse v. Mages (1928)
39 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Goodwin v. State · Teegarden v. Lewis · Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad v. Madden · Blume v. State · Sievers v. Peters Box & Lumber Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A will may be defined, with sufficient accuracy for present purposes, as any instrument, executed *Page 403 with the formalities required by law, whereby a person makes a disposition of his property to take effect after his death. (Citing cases.) It is, of course, essential to distinguish between such provisions and those in which the beneficiary takes some interest, vested or contingent, upon the execution of the instrument. It is of the essence of a testamentary disposition of property that it be purely posthumous in operation, since during life the intent of the testator must continue ambulatory.”
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.