Sharpe v. . Isley’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1967
8 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the testator had incorporated in his will a provision for a limitation over in the event his wife did not have ‘living heirs’ or children by him, a different situation would have been presented. . . . But there are no such words here and we may not add them to the will in order to serve a supposed intent. The intention of the testator must be ascertained from the language in which it is expressed, and it is the duty of the court to give the words used their legal effect.” Id. at 754 , 14 S.E. 2d at 815 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. Ray
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.