Guitar v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Estate of Cupples v. Koeln (1917), Smith v. Steen (1915)
27 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Merrill v. Sanborn
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person make his last will, and die, leaving a child or children, or descendants of such child or children in case of their death, not named or provided for in such will, . . . every such testator, *Page 668 so far as shall regard any such child or children, or their descendants, not provided for, shall be deemed to die intestate, . . .”
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.