Conner's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Britt Estate (1952), Hope Estate (1960)
50 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 Joyce's Estate · Biles v. Biles · Redding v. Rice · Conner's Estate · Worst v. DeHaven
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While this is a layman’s will in the handwriting of testatrix, and it is proper to explore the four corners of the will in the light of the circumstances under which it was written to discover her testamentary intent, we must keep in mind that it is not the province of the court ‘to consider what the testator possibly intended, but only what intention is expressed in the language used’: Joyce’s Est., 273 Pa. 404, 407 , 117 A. 90 ; Biles v. Biles, 281 Pa. 565, 568 , 127 A. 235 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. West Estate
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.