Calloway v. Calloway’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1977 · most notably Atkinson v. Kern (1925), Daniel v. Tyler's Ex'r (1943)
23 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 Connor v. Gardner · Jones v. Gane · In re Estate of Reinhardt · O'Hearn v. O'Hearn · Burnam v. Suttle
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Implication may be founded upon two grounds: It may either arise from an elliptical form of_ expression, which involves and implies something else as contemplated by the person using the expression; or the implication may be founded upon the form of gift, or upon a direction to do something which cannot be carried-into effect without of necessity involving something else, # * * which is a consequence necessarily resulting from that direction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bean v. Bean““I further will that should my son, Coleman, die without heirs, that his sister and her children shall inherit his portion of my estate. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prewitt v. Prewitt
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.