Gerrish v. Hinman’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1946
5 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 Campbell v. . Rawdon · Lyon v. Acker · Canfield v. Bostwick · Dorsett v. Frith
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Mary Ann, all the rest and residue of my real and per sonal property for lier lifetime. At her decease I do devise and bequeath all that may remain of my real and personal property to each of my living children and the children of my deceased daughters alike, to be divided as a majority of them shall say. by sale or otherwise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Smith
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.