Blumer v. Gillespie’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Housman v. Lewellen (1951), Bookwalter v. Lamar (1963)
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Burnet v. Burnet · Cook v. Higgins · Cross v. Hoch · Murphy v. Carlin · Lewis v. Pitman
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.
“Appellant contends the provision in the will that the testator's son `shall inherit what may remain of my estate after my wife's death' clearly indicates a power of disposition on the part of his wife, and, therefore, negatives the idea of a life estate with remainder over to the son. *Page 985”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“question depends entirely upon the sense in which [the testator] used the words, and that must be determined from a consideration of the will as a whole, and not from the abstract definition of such words, divorced from other provisions of the will.”
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.