Collins Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably Vandergrift Estate (1962), 440 Pa. Super. 195 - Estate of Pew (1994)
35 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 Britt Estate · Sowers Estate · Cannistra Estate · Carmany Estate · Kelsey 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No rule regarding wills is more settled than the great General Rule that the testator's intent, if it is not unlawful, must prevail”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Meyers Estate · Benedum 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.