Edwards v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1963
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 Chace v. Gregg · Allen v. Craft · Ridgeway v. Lanphear · Nelson v. Davis · Davis v. Agnew
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All devisees who by any possibility could take were, at the time of the testator’s death, and at all times thereafter, in being, except the contingent remaindermen described as the possible issue of Mary Emily Edwards, and they would, of necessity have to be alive at her death. That does not contravene the statute. ...””
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.