Wicker v. Rowntree’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2008
7 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 Dakan v. Dakan · Frame v. Whitaker · State v. Kennedy · Roots v. Robertson, Administrator · Lindsley v. Lindsley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order for the [devisee] to be put to an election, it must be determined by “manifest implication” that it was the [testatrix’s] intention to exclude him from the enjoyment of the homestead rights. In other words, there must be such an inconsistency between the homestead rights as created by the Constitution and the property rights as created by the will that the enjoyment of one by [the devisee] will preclude the enjoyment of the other.”
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.