Hatheway v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
4 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1995 · most notably Bankers Trust Co. v. Blodgett (1923), In Re the Will of Fowles (1918)
4 district · 43 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 Booth v. Baptist Church of Christ of Poughkeepsie · Langdon v. . Astor's Executors · Newton v. Seaman's Friend Society · Bryan v. Bigelow · Jacobs v. Button
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to dispose of one's property by will is one conferred by law. The extent of the right, and the conditions under which it may be exercised, are and can be only such as the law prescribes. An expression of will failing to comply with the prescribed conditions is a mere nullity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The theory of our statutes is based upon our settled public policy.”
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.