Entwistle v. Covington’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Little v. Wachovia Bank and Trust Company (1960), WACHOVIA BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. Dodson (1963)
38 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 WACHOVIA BANK AND TRUST COMPANY v. Wolfe · Cannon v. . Cannon · Coppedge v. Coppedge · Heyer v. . Bulluck · Williams v. . Rand
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The paramount aim in the interpretation of a will is to ascertain if possible the intent of the testator. In our effort to ascertain the testator’s intent, we must consider the instrument as a whole and give effect to such intent, unless it is contrary to some rule of law or at variance with public policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.