Moreland v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1955
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 Jackson ex dem. Van Vechten v. Sill · Riggs v. Myers · Button v. American Tract Society · State v. Hilton · Pool v. Buffum
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.
““Wills are frequently made during the last sickness of testators, and they too often depend wholly upon memory for description of their lands, and in consequence they are liable to great indefiniteness and occasional error. And on looking into the many cases decided, we find that courts have for a long period of years been compelled to deal with these descriptions in a very lenient manner, in order to reach the true intent of the testator ‘where that seemed practicable by the act of construction, and by the admission of oral evidence to remove latent ambiguities.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Putnam v. Jenkins
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.