Wendell v. AmeriTrust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Polen v. Baker (2001), State v. Sullivan (2001)
40 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 Ohio Citizens Bank v. Mills · 52 Ohio St. 2d 220 - Carr v. Stradley · 139 Ohio St. 361 - Ohio National Bank v. Boone · 147 Ohio St. 49 - Flynn v. Bredbeck · Central Trust Co. v. Smith
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a testator dies leaving issue of his body, or an adopted child, living, or the lineal descendants of either, and the will of such testator gives, devises or bequeaths the estate of such testator, or any part thereof, to a benevolent, religious, educational or charitable purpose, *** such will as to such gift, devise or bequest, shall be invalid unless it was executed according to law, at least one year prior to the death of the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[G]enerally, a decision of this court overruling a previous decision is to be applied retrospectively with an exception for contractual or vested rights that have arisen under the previous decision. This reasoning applies with similar force when the court's decision strikes down a statute as unconstitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the law abhors intestate succession and that every reasonable effort will be made to avoid such a result where possible”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Henderson
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.