Clark v. Strother’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2015
17 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 James v. Peoples National Bank · Bessie R. Griffin v. Central Natl. Bk. · Rennolds v. Branch · Maiorano v. Virginia Trust Co. · Sellers' Ex'or v. Reed
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cardinal principle of will construction is that the intention of the testator controls; the problem is to ascertain it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Huaman v. Aquino
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.