Kelly v. Dyer’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1983
15 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 Wunderle v. Wunderle · Candee, Swan & Co. v. Deere & Co. · Blanchard v. Williamson · Smith v. Smith · Whitman v. Fisher
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y providing in the first clause of her will that her debts and funeral expenses were to be paid she merely stated what the law requires to be done. The expression in the will adds nothing to the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[s]ubject to the payment of my funeral expenses and indebtedness.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.