Chamberlain v. Runkle’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2010
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 Shimer v. Mann · Ridgeway v. Lanphear · Nicholson v. Caress · Fountain County Coal & Mining Co. v. Beckleheimer · Nelson v. Davis
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.
““The term ‘heirs’ has a fixed legal meaning as a word of limitation; and a merely presumed intention, even in wills, will not control that significance of the word, and it will not be treated as a word of purchase unless the testator’s intent to so use it is manifest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nunner v. Erickson
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.