Williamson v. Brownlow’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2005
6 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 Weiss v. Broadway National Bank · Ledbetter v. Ledbetter · First American National Bank v. Cole · Martin v. Hale · 25 Tenn. App. 133 - Treanor v. Treanor
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is equally fixed in the jurisprudence of this State that it will be presumed that one who undertakes to make a will does not intend to die intestate as to any of his property; and, if possible, courts will construe a will so that it disposes of all the testator’s property if such can be done by any fair interpretation or allowable implications from the words used.”
1 later decision 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.