Wyman v. Roesner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Holland v. Hannan (1983), Beckman v. Farmer (1990)
38 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 Santoni v. United States · Colton v. Colton · Kenaday v. Sinnott · Burch v. Amsterdam Corporation · Baker v. National Savings & Trust Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“("In many cases where a specifically bequeathed item is absent from the estate, it is difficult — if not impossible — to determine the testator’s intent Because the testator often will have failed to foresee the eventuality that has come to pass, the court could be engaged in a futile effort to surmise an intent that the testator never had. The acceptance of extrinsic evidence such as testimony regarding the testator's oral declarations of intent would undermine the formalities of writing and execution established to avoid the possibility of perjury.”)”
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.