Stiegler v. Hibbert’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2001
8 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 Dildine v. Dildine · Guitar v. Gordon · Brewer v. Curtis · Todd v. Gambrill · Brewer v. Curtis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case the only possible suggestion that the testamentary intent was that Mrs. Alsentzer’s children should be substituted for her is, that the testator knew she was dead when he wrote his will and therefore must have meant her children to step into her place as legatee. No case has been cited and I believe none can be found, where a testamentary intent to substitute is gathered from a bare circumstance of that sort. If such were the proper rule of construction, there never was any need for including void legacies in the many statutes against lapsing which are found in the various states.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCallum v. Grantham“[w]hen the statute refers to brother or sister it means brother or sister by blood. This is too obvious for discussion.”
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.