Eyer v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1934
1 federal appellate · 14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the conflict of authority which appears, we do not feel bound to depart from what we may conclude to be the natural meaning of the will, if we can find any clue to that. The cardinal principle of interpretation of wills is to carry out the intention of the testator, if it is lawful, and if it can be discovered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Deming
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.