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Robnett v. Ashlock’s Empirical Analysis

1872

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
11
states following
November 2001
most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2001

15 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 Case of Todd's Will

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “This 22d May, 1856. I this day start to Kentucky; I may never get back. If it should be my misfortune, I give my property to my sisters’ children (Katharine, Polly, Sally and Margaret); by giving Margaret’s children as much again as the others, as they are the most helpless. I give my watch to the youngest niece or nephew, as long as she or he lives, and so on; I give it to the family for a keepsake. You can prove the truth of this by the hand-write — all the neighbors may. The Lord prosper and bless us in this world and the world to come.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Helmer v. Voss
  2. “[T]he words after the first phrase .. . mean, If it should be my misfortune never to get back; or, If I die during my absence I give, etc. It is not easy to attach any other meaning to them, and with that meaning the bequest is made conditional upon his not returning, and could only become operative upon the contingency of his dying before his return.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Helmer v. Voss

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.