Winkler v. Woodruff’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2004
15 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 Presbyterian Hospital v. Bacon · In Re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Reynolds · In Re the Accounting of Thompson · In Re the Probate of the Will of Delaney · Sussex Trust Co. v. Polite
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence which was tendered to show by the testator’s statements what he intended by the language of the will was rejected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all the furniture, household furnishings and personal property of any kind whatsoever”
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.