Chambers Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Tafel Estate (1972), Estate of Sykes (1978)
27 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 Houston Estate · Cannistra Estate · Mayer's Estate · Holton Estate · Benedum 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ [A] rtificial rules of testamentary construction have been legislatively and judicially created merely to aid in what is always the primary goal — to ascertain and to give effect to the testamentary purposes of the testator. Therefore, where the testator’s actual intent can be ascertained, such intent must prevail over any artificially-deduced ‘intent’ which the rules of construction might dictate.””
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.