Conner's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 1970 · most notably Brennan's Estate (1936), Lyon v. Alexamder (1931)
30 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 Lippincott's Estate · Commonwealth Ex Rel. v. Kline · Buechley's Estate · Philadelphia v. Commonwealth · 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So, too, as we have often said in cases of constitutional and statutory construction (Phila. v. Com., 270 Pa. 353 ; Com. ex rel. v. Kline, 294 Pa. 562 ) and now apply to wills because the underlying reason is equally applicable thereto, where there is an irreconcilable conflict, a general clause must always give way to one which is specific, the general being treated as including only that which is not specifically given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Korpics 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.