Meyer v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2006
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gehring v. Henry · In Re Estate of Stengel · Magruder v. Magruder · Cross v. Cross · Crist v. Nesbit
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[T]he intentions of the testator must be gleaned from the written unambiguous will, not from what the testator or the will's scrivener, after execution of the instrument, contrarily declared, either orally or in writing, to be testator's intentions or the meaning of provisions in the will.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Johnson
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.