Stewart v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1972 · most notably Gridley v. Johnson (1972), Johnson v. Helmer (1921)
28 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 Mandlebaum v. McDonell · Donaldson v. Allen · Lilly v. Menke · Garesche v. Levering Investment Co. · Holloway v. Holloway
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those who take of his (testator's) bounty must take it on the terms he imposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borchers v. Borchers
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.