Dalrymple v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1991
2 federal appellate · 19 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he terms in this will, ‘all my personal property,’ are sufficient to pass the testator’s distributive share of his brother’s estate, unless their obvious meaning, can, upon good and legal grounds be put aside or restricted, and held not to embrace this property. There is however nothing upon the face of the will to enable the court to give it any such restricted construction. The words are as comprehensive as any that could be used. He does not say ‘my ranch and all my personal property thereon’ nor ‘all my personal property in California.’ He makes no enumeration of articles, nor any bequest to any one else, so as to give the court the slightest clue or ground for relying on the rule ‘ejusdem generis ’ or ‘noscitur a sociis.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Emmert v. Hearn
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.