Griffith Will’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Quein Will (1948), Garchinsky v. Clifton Heights Borough (1970)
24 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 Lare Will · Cross's Estate · Churchill's Estate · Bates's Estate · Socialist Labor Case
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was at the logical and sequential end of the instrument although not at the physical or spatial end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coplin v. Anderson
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.