Wheeler v. Loesch’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1994
12 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 Wilson v. Carrico · Davidson v. Koehler · Spencer v. Robbins · Copeland v. Summers · Stroup v. Stroup
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a will and deeds are executed at the same time, it may be requisite to look at all the instruments in order to ascertain the testator's intention, but this alone will not prevent the deeds from passing title to the property described therein, or make them a part of the will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Walz“If an instrument passes present title, but postpones enjoyment of the estate until the grantor's death, it is a deed. If both title and enjoyment are postponed, it is a will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. Huff“this deed shall be delivered by the Cannelton State Bank, who shall hold it until the death of the grantor, to the grantee after the death of the grantor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Walz
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.