Bateman v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1956
13 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 Toms v. Williams · Defreese v. Lake · Jones v. Jones · Glover v. Reid · Hamlin v. United States Express 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(2) I give, devise and bequeath unto my wife, Harriet M. Bateman, all of my estate both real and personal, and I do hereby empower her, my said wife, to sell and dispose of all or any part of my said estate and convey the same by deed or otherwise without obtaining license from the Court for this purpose; and I especially desire that my said wife shall have the right to use the whole or any part of my said estate for her own use and benefit. (3) If any of my said real or personal estate shall remain after the decease of my said wife then in this case I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my said estate so remaining unto my sons, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heinzman v. Coon
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.