Singer v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1976
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 Clapp v. . Fullerton · Woman's Union Missionary Society of America v. Mead · Ingraham v. Ingraham · Singer v. Taylor
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.
““An equitable proceeding for the construction of a will is peculiarly a case that appeals to the discretion of a court, and where there is an ambiguity in the will and a real question of interpretation the court is justified in not only assessing the costs of the litigation against the estate but also in allowing reasonable attorneys’ fees payable out of the estate to the defeated as well as the successful party.” (p. 192.)”
1 later decision 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.