Farrington Will’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Estate of Sykes (1978), Hill Estate (1968)
28 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 Byrne's Estate · Vandergrift Estate · Carmany Estate · Conner's Estate · Fisher's 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a decedent drafts a last will and testament, he is presumed, in the absence of an indication to the contrary, to have intended to dispose of his entire estate and not to die intestate as to any part of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips 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.