Webbe v. Webbe’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1954
19 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 Butler v. Huestis · Lehndorf v. Cope · Giles v. Anslow · Blackmore v. Blackmore · Ryan v. Allen
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that he included real estate in the same sentence of the will, when not otherwise indicated in some other part of the instrument, indicates an intention that the devisees should take the same estate in the land that they were given in the personal property. This, of course, is not conclusive, but is an important circumstance to be considered in arriving at the intention of the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Genung v. Best
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.