Smith v. Chester’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Blocker v. Blocker (1931), Riddle v. Killian (1937)
1 federal appellate · 23 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 Manice v. . Manice · Ebey v. Adams · Haward v. Peavey · Lachenmyer v. Gehlbach · Starr v. Willoughby
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not unmindful of the rule that in cases of doubt or ambiguity in the language used in creating a remainder, a construction is favored that will make the' remainder a vested one, but such rule must give way to the intention of the testatrix as expressed in the will.” (p. 444.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Purl v. Purl
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.