Stowell v. Hastings’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably Mulvane v. Rude (1896), Newton Trust Co. v. Commissioner (1947)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 John Smith v. Robert Bell · Smith v. . Van Ostrand · Campbell v. . Beaumont · McCloskey v. Gleason · Ramsdell v. Ramsdell
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining what estate is given the first taker, the whole will should be considered, and all the clauses construed together. Even in those cases where an absolute estate is in terms given, if subsequent passages unequivocally show that the testator meant the legatee to take a life interest only, the prior gift is restricted accordingly”- — and cites Jarman on Wills, e. 15; Richardson v. Paige, 54 Vt. 373 ; McCloskey v. Gleason, 56 Vt. 264 , 48 Am. Rep. 770 ; Smith v. Bell, 6 Pet. 68 , 8 L. Ed. 322 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffin v. Morgan“■ “I give to my beloved wife, * * * The residue and remainder of all my estate, both real and personal, for her benefit and support, to use and dispose of as she may think proper. If any of the estate should be left in my wife’s possession at her death, it is my will that the same should be equally divided between eight of my brothers and sisters,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffin v. Morgan
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.