Clanton v. Estes’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1965
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 McArthur v. Scott · Olmstead v. Dunn · Ford v. Cook · Jeffries v. Bartlett · Bailey v. Ross
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To my wife, Mary Clanton, in addition to what I have already bequeathed and devised to her, I do hereby give,’ devise, and bequeath the warehouse and lot on Reynolds street, in the city of Augusta, now occupied by James M. Dye, to be enjoyed by her for life, and at her death to be equally divided among all my children then living, and the children of any one or more of my children who may previously die, the latter to take per stirpes, and not per capita.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Haslett““The law favors the vesting of remainders in all cases of doubt. In construing wills words of survivorship shall refer to the death of the testator in order to vest remainders, unless a manifest intention to the contrary appears.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Haslett
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.