Snedeker Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1984 · most notably Masciantonio Will (1958), Williams v. McCarroll (1953)
26 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 Phillips' Estate · Quein Will · Sturgeon Will · Culbertson's Estate · Delaurentiis'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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Opinion evidence by an expert is, of course, admissible but as we said in Henry’s Estate, 276 Pa. 511 , . . . ‘opinion evidence, standing alone, as it did, would not sustain a finding of forgery, in the face of the direct and credible evidence . . .’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Daroff Estate · Robinson v. Wirts
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.