Herr Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Hutchison v. Sunbeam Coal Corp. (1986), Yocca v. Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. (2004)
12 federal appellate · 79 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 Betterman v. American Stores Co. · Beisgen Estate · King Estate · Fessman Estate · Logan v. Wiley
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Court in interpreting a will or a contract can always consider the surrounding circumstances in order to ascertain the intention and meaning of the parties.”
4 later decisions 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.