Stearns v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1954
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on R. F. Robinson Co. v. Drew · Kennard v. Kennard · Upton v. White · Flanders v. Parker · Peaslee v. Rounds
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is too well settled in this jurisdiction to require extended citation, that the testator's intent is the sovereign guide in the interpretation of a will and this intent being ascertained, the Court must enforce it unless it is illegal or impossible to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.