Beck v. Metz’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1944
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 State v. Chandler
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.
““We think here the fourth clause mentions his child in sufficient manner to take this will without the 11th section of our statute of wills. (R. C. 1845.) The testator expressly mentions his child — ‘as well with reference to our child.’ They had but one, the daughter. The wife had one by a former husband; even he is named. Now this mentioning his child and the giving the power to his wife to provide for this child by disposing of the estate according to her own judgment, must be considered within the spirit of our statute, as a naming or providing for his child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gehlen v. Gehlen““In every other respect I leave it entirely to the will and judgment of my said wife Catherine how and in what manner she thinks proper to dispose of the estate, as well with reference to our own child or children as with reference to the said Joseph Frederick Beck.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gehlen v. Gehlen
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.