Wilson v. Higgason’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1981
12 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 Walker v. Hibbard · Jaques v. Simms · Sanford v. Shepard · Dodd v. Holden
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A will may be drawn to take effect only on the happening of a specified contingency, which is a condition precedent to the operation of the will, and when so drawn a will is denominated a contingent, or conditional will. Such a will is operative if the contingency happens or occurs, but it9 operation is defeated by failure or nonoccurrence of such contingency, except where it is subsequently revived or republished by the testator. (94 C.J.S. at pp. 938-939.)”
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.