Martindale v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1943
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.
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.
““As against George Waybright, the heir and his grantees, we think the will took effect immediately after the death of the testator and the probate of the will, and such death and will immediately transferred the title to the property to the testator’s wife, subject possibly to the payment of the debts of the deceased, and subject possibly to his wife’s homestead interests.” (p. 274.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When death occurs, the title to the property of the person dying must be transferred to some person. It cannot remain in the deceased; and the will simply designates where the title shall go.” (p. 273.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.