Baker v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2013
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.
Relationships
Relies on City Bank & Trust Co. v. McCaa · Spencer v. Title Guarantee Loan & Trust Co. · Mills Lumber Co. v. Hull · Meglemry v. Meglemry
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.
““[n]o presumptions or rules of construction can serve to rewrite a will at variance with its clear and unambiguous terms, whatever extraneous fact may have led the testator to make the will he did make. The sanctity of wills, safeguarded by law, would be weakened, if not destroyed, by thus disregarding the plain terms of the will. City Bank & Trust Co. v. McCaa et al., 213 Ala. 579 , 105 So. 669 [ (1925) ]; Meglemry et al. v. Meglemry, 222 Ala. 229 , 131 So. 906 [ (1931) ]; Spencer v. Title Guarantee Loan & Trust Co. et al., 222 Ala. 485 , 132 So. 730 ; 69 C.J. § 1110, § 1148, Notes 98 and 99 [ (1931) ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith
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.