Jackson v. Templin’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Stewart v. Selder (1971), Corpus Christi National Bank v. Gerdes (1977)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Bullard v. City of Cisco · McMurry v. Stanley · Darragh v. Barmore · Kilgore v. North West Texas Baptist Educational Society · Haring v. Shelton
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While courts have jurisdiction to construe wills, they have none to reform or correct them. They can add nothing to nor subtract anything from a will, but must leave it as the testator made it, giving it only such construction as he intended.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* *' * and when my children attain lawful age it is my will and desire, and I hereby direct, that the residue remaining in the hands of my executor, after raising and educating my children aforesaid, be equally divided among my said children.””
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.