Hardy v. Carnes’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1983
4 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 Munger v. Elliott
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A will is to be construed according to the intention of the testator. Where his intention cannot have effect to its full extent, it must have effect as far as possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * (W) e find that her intent to devise her property to the two sons is clearly expressed. It is equally clear that she intended to exclude all other children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pease v. Whitlatch
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.