Wright's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1973 · most notably Funk Estate (1945), 140 W. Va. 422 - Goetz v. Old National Bank of Martinsburg (1954)
26 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 Tatham's Estate · List v. Rodney · Schattenberg's Estate · McClellan's Estate · Bingaman's Estate
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I desire and so direct that the above named trustees may, from the income of the said trust, pay to my nieces and nephews, by blood or marriage, such sum or sums as in their discretion, after investigation, may be necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brody Estate
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.