Bindley v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1985 · most notably Mobil Oil Corporation v. McHenry (1968), Estate of Johnson v. Bassler (1957)
2 district · 26 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 Hoover v. Roberts · Kistler v. Fitzpatrick Mortgage Co. · Hoover v. Roberts · Bitzer v. Smith · Cross v. Hodges
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the final settlement of the estate of a testate decedent the probate court has not only the authority but the duty of interpreting or construing the will and determining the respective beneficiaries of the estate named in the will and assigning to each the share of the property bequeathed or devised by the will. “The method provided by statute for correcting any error the court might make interpreting or construing the will and determining the respective shares of the beneficiaries named therein is by an appeal from the order of final distribution.” (Syl. tiff 1, 2.)”
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.