Van Winkle v. . Berger’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1984
12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A man is not required to visualize all changes and contingencies near or remote, trivial or important, which might come about . . . and meticulously provide against intestacy in order to make a valid will; nor may the Court, by the exercise of hindsight better than his foresight, improve upon the testamentary disposition.”
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.