Whitlock-Rose v. McCaughn’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.2d 164 · 1927
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1972
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Bullen v. State of Wisconsin · Greenway v. White · Tucker v. Alexander · Bingham's Appeal · Hume v. . Randall
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] power is regarded as 'general' when it is not restricted by the donor to particular objects or beneficiaries, though the method of exercising it may be restricted and limited to a testamentary paper.”
2 later decisions 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.