Sharp v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably Louisville N. R. Co. v. Scott (1935), Porter v. Henderson (1919)
52 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Daniel v. Hill · Kinnebrew's Distributees v. Kinnebrew's Administrators · Shepherd v. Nabors · Robinson v. Schly · Jordan v. Jordan's Adm'r
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]ll the attending circumstances may be put in proof, as aids in determining whether the maker intended the paper should operate as a deed or a will, whenever it is so framed as to postpone actual enjoyment under it, until the death of the maker. Gillham v. Mustin, 42 Ala. 365 ; Daniel v. Hill, 52 Ala. 430 ; Campbell v. Gilbert, 57 Ala. 569 ; Jordan v. Jordan, 65 Ala. 301 ; Rice v. Rice, 68 Ala. 216 ; Lee v. Shivers, 70 Ala. 288 ; 1 Big. Jarman on Wills, 25; Gage v. Gage, 12 N.H. 371 ; Mealing v. Pace, 14 Ga. 596, 630 ; Symmes v. Arnold, 10 Ga. 506 ; Jackson v. Jackson, 6 Dana, 257 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There are few, if any, questions less clearly defined in the law books than an intelligible, uniform test by which to determine when a given paper is a deed and when it is a will. Deeds, once executed, are irrevocable, unless such power is reserved in the instrument. Wills are always revocable so long as the testator lives and retains testamentary capacity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dexter v. Witte
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.