Logan v. Wiley’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Easton v. Washington County Insurance (1957), Herr Estate (1960)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Trustees of the Proprietors v. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. · Brooklyn Trust Co. v. Warrington · Gerety Estate · Metzger's Estate · Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Bovaird & Seyfang Manufacturing Co.
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.
““The words: . . . ‘the property known as the “Daune Building” ’ are not a clear and precise description of the real estate intended to be devised. No metes and bounds are given. Of necessity, resort must be had to extrinsic and collateral circumstances to identify and define the boundaries of the premises intended to be devised. “An ambiguity in description may always be explained . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kusang 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.