Hamilton Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Estate of Sykes (1978), Estate of Flinn (1978)
45 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 Burleigh Estate · Houston Estate · Dinkey Estate · Wanamaker Estate · Hope 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is, of course, a cardinal rule that a will is to be construed according to the intent of the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Taylor
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.