Lemp v. Lemp’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2017
16 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"I give, bequeath and devise to my wife, Julia Lemp, all my property, real and personal, or mixed, wheresoever situated or by whatsoever title held, absolutely. "I make no gift here to my children . . . and I make no gift to my grandchild, Marian Lemp, having perfect confidence that my wife will, without any request on my part, and none such is here made, do best for -them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blumer v. Gillespie“I give, bequeath and devise to my wife, Julia Lemp, all my property, real and personal, or mixed, wheresoever situated or by whatsoever title held, absolutely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blumer v. Gillespie
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.