Varnon v. Varnon’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1974
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Wolf v. Bollinger · Dickey v. Malechi · Bigelow v. Gillott · Jackson v. Jackson · Graham v. O'Fallon
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to cut off the sister and leave the brother as the sole legatee if the mother and son died without children”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kane v. Mayhew“to tear out the fifth page, rewrite it as it was except to omit the name of the sister”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kane v. Mayhew
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.