Crampton v. Osborn’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Goodman v. Allen Cab Co. (1950), Merrick v. Bridgeways, Inc. (1951)
4 federal appellate · 40 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 Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · In Re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Kennedy · Schierbaum v. Schemme · Jablonowski v. Modern Cap Manufacturing Co. · Teckenbrock v. McLauglhin
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.
“No will in writing, except in the cases herein mentioned, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked, except by a subsequent will in writing, or by burning, canceling, tearing or obliterating the same, by the testator, or in his presence, and by his consent and direction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kane v. Mayhew · Baiwir v. Moody“At any time during his life a testator may revoke his will for any cause, or for no cause; but he cannot revoke it by a mere declaration that he has done so and, after his death, the fact of revocation cannot be proved by such a declaration alone.... [H]e can revoke it only by one of the statutory methods, to wit, the execution of a later will, or the partial or total destruction of his will with intent to revoke it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baiwir v. Moody
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.