Edwards v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2022
9 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 Metcalf v. First Parish in Framingham · Williams v. . Jones · City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. Taylor · 107 N.J. Eq. 283 - City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. Hentz · Estate of Cox
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is also the presumption against intestacy, here particularly strong since the residuary clause is the subject of consideration.”
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.