O'Hare v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Deacon v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. (1917), Geiger v. Geer (1946)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 John Smith v. Robert Bell · Scofield v. Olcott · Robinson v. . Martin · Steib v. Whitehead · Fifer v. Allen
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Cases on wills may serve to guide us with respect to general rules in the construction of devises in wills, but unless a case cited be in every respect directly in point and agree in every circumstance with that in question it will have little or no weight with the courts, who always look upon the intention of the testator as the polar star to direct them in the construction of wills."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“thirty years after my death, I give and bequeath to my above named nephews and nieces, or their heirs, and if no heirs to be divided equally among the surviving heirs, all of my above described real estate,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nicol v. Morton
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.