Nirdlinger's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Crawford Estate (1949), Williamson Estate (1951)
5 federal appellate · 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 Hite's Devisees v. Hite's · In Re the Will of Chapal · Edwards v. Edwards · In Re the Accounting of Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee Under the Will of Otis · Nirdlinger's Estate (No. 2)
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless it is otherwise provided by the terms of the trust”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Bothwell
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.