Ernst v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably Markham v. Waterman (1919), Dyal v. Brunt (1942)
6 federal appellate · 36 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 Roberts v. Lewis · Little v. Giles · Wiley v. Gregory · Aspinwall v. Aspinwall
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general rule that a will should be construed so as to give effect to every part thereof, providing an effect can be given to it which appears to be consistent with the general purpose of the testator as gathered from the entire instrument.” (p. 443.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morse v. Henlon
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.