Holmes v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1961
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Ordinarily when a testator makes a bequest or devise to another, it is presumed he intends to confer a benefit; to make the devisee the object of his bounty; and not to make him a mere trustee for another’s benefit, and that he intends a benefit as extensive and valuable as the thing given by the devise; and the intent to make him hold for the benefit of another, or the gift less than the thing devised, must affirmatively appear from some provision of the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.