Russell v. Werntz’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1948
18 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 Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · Tayloe v. Mosher · Benesch v. Clark · Foos v. Scarf · Clark v. Tennison ex rel. Browning
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Item Second. I bequeath unto my present wife, Virginia Bussell, all the residue of my estate, including all my property, both real, personal and mixed, to have and tó hold and dispose off (sic) as she may see fit, while she remains single, and at her death or marriage, the remaining property is to be equally divided between my two daughters, Grace A. Bussell and 'Jessie V. Bus-sell.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bachtell v. Bachtell
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.