Conlin Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Wanamaker Estate (1960), Vandergrift Estate (1962)
48 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 Newlin Estate · Britt Estate · Commonwealth State Emp. Ret. System v. Dau. Co. · Sowers Estate · Beisgen 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . under our cases the word ‘money’ when used in a will, is to be construed in the broad sense of wealth or property, instead of in its narrow sense as cash, only where the context of the will and the circumstances surrounding its execution require that it be so interpreted in order to give effect to the testator’s intention.” See also Conlin Estate, 388 Pa. 483, 489 , 131 A. 2d 117 (1957).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carson Estate
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.