Windham v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 2013
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. Killian · Hacker v. Carlisle · Patterson v. First National Bank of Mobile · 385 So. 2d 990 - Hendrix v. Hester · Pate v. Edwards
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the language of a will is clear and unambiguous, the rules of construction cannot be employed to rewrite that will and put it at variance with the meaning of the language used by the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. Morrow
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.