Harker v. Reilly’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1961
9 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 Greene v. Dennis · Tongue's Lessee v. Nutwell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘residue’ is used not in the general testamentary sense, as comprehending all of a testator’s estate left in fact undisposed of, whatever that might chance to turn out, hut as descriptive merely of the as yet unascertained balance of the proceeds of sale, which balance becomes, when the sale is completed, an ascertained amount and a specific gift, of that amount.””
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.