Grimes' Executors v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Lamb v. Lamb (1886), University of Southern Indiana Foundation v. Baker (2006)
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · Attorney-General v. Utica Insurance · Bartlet v. King · Downing v. . Marshall · Beekman v. . Bonsor
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well settled rule of construction, that all the parts of a will are to be construed together and in relation to each other, and so as, if possible, to form one consistent whole, and that words and limitations may be transposed, supplied or rejected, where warranted by the context or the general scheme of the will, but not merely on a conjectural hypothesis of the testator’s intention, however reasonable, in opposition to the plain and obvious sense of the language of the instrument. 1 Redf. on Wills, 430. It is our duty to place such a construction upon .the will .as will, sustain and uphold it in all its parts, if it can be done consistently with the established rules of construction of the law.””
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.