Benesch v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1972 · most notably In Re Bauernschmidt's Estate (1903), Roberts v. Roberts (1905)
35 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.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such deed so far as it may operate simply in execution of the power, could be operative only from the death of Mrs. Bramble, and in the event that she remained and died the widow of the testator; and therefore the words ‘at her decease,’ only denote the period when the disposition should take effect.” (p. 506.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sinke v. Muncie
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.