Emery Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably McClellan Estate (1950), Hillegass Estate (1968)
41 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 McCready's Estate · Clark's Estate · Eaton v. N.Y. Life Ins. Co. of N.Y. · Smith's Appeal · Groff'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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of the reasonableness of the provision for the wife is not whether she would receive as much as she would be legally entitled to receive in the absence of the antenuptial agreement, but whether the provision for her is sufficient to enable her to live comfortably after her husband’s death, in substantially the same way as she lived prior to the marriage, considering all the circumstances[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule that a receipt is only prima facie evidence of payment, and may be explained by parol, does not apply when the question involved is not as to the fact of payment but as to the existence of rights springing out of the contract.”
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.