Edmondson v. Dyson’s Empirical Analysis
1847
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1981
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.
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.
“In the construction of wills, the great cardinal rule is that the intention of the testator shall govern, provided it be not unlawful or inconsistent with the rules of law. And the intention is to be collected from the whole will . . . Anterior then to the application of any rule of law ... our business is to collect and fix that intention.” Edmondson v. Dyson, 2 Ga. 307, 312-313 (1847). Though inexpertly drawn, a careful reading of the entire will leaves no question as to whom the bulk of the estate is to go to,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stanton v. Dickson
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.