Simpson's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1972 · most notably Burleigh Estate (1961), Barnard Estate (1945)
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 In Re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wells · Gilmor's Estate · Van Beuren v. . Dash · Scott's Estate · Bender v. Bender
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.
““We said in Worst v. DeHaven, 262 Pa. 39 , that the word ‘or’ may be read as if it were ‘and’ and ‘and’ as if it were ‘or’ when it is absolutely necessary to carry out the expressed intent of the testator but only in that event.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.