Shaffer's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1969
19 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 Wood v. Schoen · Hermann's Estate · Thompson's Estate · Postlethwaite's Appeal · Cooley v. Houston
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.
““ ‘It was formerly held that the intention . . . must be expressly declared. Such is not the rule now. It is sufficient if it appear by necessary implication, collected from a sound interpretation of the whole will.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson Estate“must always be carried into effect unless inconsistent with established rules of law, and . . . not be defeated by any technical rules of construction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buzby Estate
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.