Clarke v. Boorman's Executors’s Empirical Analysis
85 U.S. 493 · 1873
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1985 · most notably County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York (1985), Russell v. Todd (1940)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 Ex parte State Insurance
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may well be doubted if any other source of enlightenment in the construction of a .will is of much assistance, than the application of natural reason to the language of the instrument under the light which may be thrown upon the intent of tlie testator by the extrinsic circumstances surrounding- its execution, and connecting Hie parties and the property devised with the testator and with the instrument itself.” Clarke v. Boorman’s Executors: 18 Wall. 493 , 502, 503 ( 21 L. Ed. 901 ).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.