Harris v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2015
17 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 McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Pearson v. Darrington · King v. Kent's Heirs · Wyatt's Adm'r v. Rambo · Ikelheimer v. Chapman's Adm'rs
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is obvious that these words [i. e., or; and] are often used, orally, without a due regard to their respective import; and it would not be difficult to adduce instances of the inaccuracy, even in written compositions of some note. It is not surprising, therefore, that this inaccuracy should have -found its way into wills.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We make so extended a citation of authorities upon this subject, because they prove and exemplify the looseness and confusion which prevail in the use of the conjunctions ‘or’ and ‘and,’ and the freedom, with which the courts adopt the meaning consistent with reason and intention.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rutland v. Emanuel
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.