Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1998
17 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 Eschbach v. Collins · Bigelow v. Gillott
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]ithout holding that there are none, it seems to us that there are few cases that could arise where the revocation of a portion only of a will would not operate to alter other portions of it.”
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.