Hemphill v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2015
6 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 Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Phelps v. Harris · Hemphill v. Mississippi State Highway Commission · Harvey v. Johnson · LANHAM v. Howell
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A Will must be construed and the testator's intention ascertained from the usual and ordinary language expressed therein. The words of a Will are to be construed according to the rules of construction applicable to the ordinary speech, except when technical terms are employed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the light of circumstances surrounding testator at the time the Will was written.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I want the few acres of land on South side of road to go to my brother,”
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.