Whitmore v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2006
11 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 Brumfield v. Drook · Hill v. Hill · Martin v. Davis · Indiana Railway Co. v. Morgan · Lambert v. Harvey
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I hereby direct that if any of the legatees herein mentioned, contest this will and try to break or avoid it they are for that reason to cease to be a beneficiary of my estate.”
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.