Humphreys v. Welling’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Hunter v. Hunter (1951), Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. v. Binowitz (1951)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Grace v. Perry · Deacon v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. · Garland v. Smith · Cross v. Hoch · Roth v. Rauschenbusch
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to have due regard to the directions of the will”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The true intent and meaning of the testator,”
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.