Wallace v. Cutsinger’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1992
15 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 Skinner v. Spann · Daugherty v. Rogers · Myers v. Carney · Kilgore v. Kilgore · Meeker v. . Draffen
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order for the meaning of a will to be clear from the language used, it is not necessary for it to be so worded as to exclude every other possible meaning which might be suggested as a matter of speculation or conjecture. The meaning of a will may be said to be clear when it fairly expresses an intention on a reasonable interpretation of the language used, regardless of other possible intentions not apparent but which must be reached through a forced construction, or circuitous reasoning.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . If we find the language used in the will free from doubt, then we need go no further, as it will need no construction. In that event it will only remain for the court to give effect to the intention of the testator thus expressed. ... ... It is free from ambiguity, and therefore we are bound by the intention thus expressed, without resold; to rules of construction to determine its meaning.””
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.