Randall v. Randall’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1950
2 district · 19 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 Clark v. Tennison ex rel. Browning · Small v. Marburg · Boyd v. Sachs
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule followed by both the English and American courts is, that a widow’s renunciation and election to take as against the will is equivalent to her death, unless it contravenes some manifest intention of the testator as expressed by tbe will.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Craig v. Craig · Glover v. Glover
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.