2 Ill. 2d 197 - Davidson v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably 5 Ill. 2d 230 - McDonough County Orphanage v. Burnhart (1955), 19 Ill. 2d 501 - Young v. Whisler (1960)
25 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 Bond v. Moore · Dahmer v. Wensler · Cahill v. Michael · Peck v. Drennan · Glaser v. Chicago Title & Trust 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The testator's intention is to be gathered not from one clause in the will alone, but from a view of the will as a whole and all of its parts, sentences, phrases or words, bearing in mind the plan of the testator as expressed in the entire will.”
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.