Morrison v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1960
5 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 In re Donges's Estate · Maxcy v. City of Oshkosh · Will of Ehlers · Flint v. Wisconsin Trust Co. · Ohse v. Miller
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But we must look to the language of the whole will and read it in the light of the circumstances surrounding the testator, in order to discover what was apparently in-his mind at the time he made it, and thus ascertain his intention. Donges’s, Estate, 103 Wis. 497 , 79 N. W. 786 ; Ohse v. Miller, 137 Wis. 474 , 119 N. W. 93 ; Maxcy v. Oshkosh, 144 Wis. 238 , 128 N. W. 899, 1138 ; Flint v. Wisconsin Trust Co. 151 Wis. 231 , 138 N. W. 629 ; Will of Ehlers, 155 Wis. 46 , 143 N. W. 1050 ; Will of Smith, 165 Wis. 207 , 161 N. W. 749 ; Will of Elmore, 165 Wis. 266 , 162 N. W. 438 ; Will of Read, 180 Wis. 497 , 193 N. W. 382 .””
3 later decisions 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.