Benner v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1949
11 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 Wilson v. Wilson · Oswald v. Caldwell · Elliott v. Murray · Baker v. Baker · Chilvers v. Race
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the intended disposition of property is not to take effect in the testator’s lifetime, but, is ambulatory until his death, such disposition is not operative unless it is executed in conformity with the statute of wills.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blackwell v. Lee
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.