Renner Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1979
20 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 McCauley's Estate · Packer's Estate · Brown's Estate · Rickenbach Estate · Duffy's Estate
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He [the testator] knew that the maintenance and interment of the pets could not possibly consume the principal and income of the residue and obviously desired to give it to [the friend]; he could hardly have intended the fund to accumulate in violation of the Act of April 18, 1853, P.L. 503, 20 PS 3251.1” 7”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lyon 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.