Martin v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1971
20 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 Metcalf v. First Parish in Framingham · Tifft v. . Porter · Kimberly v. . Patchin · Johnson v. Goss · Thayer v. Paulding
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Many of the courts of last resort in this country have broken away from the arbitrary and iron-clad English rule aforesaid, and construe legacies as specific, when bank stock or other stock is disposed of, . . . where the will, upon its face, fairly discloses the intention of testator to make a specific bequest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It made no difference to her (testatrix) which particular shares of stock each legatee received, as they were all alike, and all of the same value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“keep said shares of stock and collect such dividends as may be paid thereon and pay the same as they are collected to”
1 later decision 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.