Rainear's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably Horn Estate (1944), Braun Estate (1947)
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 Warne's Estate · Vernier's Estate · Bissell's Estate · Baugh'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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well established rule of testamentary interpretation that a will and codicil must be construed together and that a codicil shall disturb the dispositions of the original will only where its provisions are plainly inconsistent with the will: Vernier’s Estate, 282 Pa. 194, 198 ; Warne’s Estate, 302 Pa. 386, 394 . If, however, the codicil is subject to two interpretations, one of which follows the main purpose as expressed in the will and the other is not consistent with it, the consistent interpretation will be adopted, because, generally speaking, there is no presumption that a codicil is intended to change a will: Bissell’s Estate, 302 Pa. 27,32 . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glant Will
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.