Wright Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably Loeb Estate (1960), Hoffmann Estate (1960)
25 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 Knowlton v. Moore · Lyeth v. Hoey · Chase Nat Bank of City of New York v. United States · Riggs v. Del Drago · Harrison v. Northern Trust Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question, then, is what did the testator intend, as disclosed by his will, the intent being permissively ascertainable from implication no less than from express direction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gross 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.