Hobson v. . Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1967 · most notably 1 E.H. Smith 348 - Baer v. Hendricks (1895), Ford v. Ford (1887)
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Manice v. . Manice · Smith v. . Edwards · Warner v. . Durant · Lent v. . Howard · Everitt v. . Everitt
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Twenty-second—As to the residue and remainder of all my estate, both real and personal, not herein otherwise disposed of, it is my will that the same be and remain in the care and control of my said executrix and executors and trustees, and their successors, well and safely invested, until the decease of the last survivor of the life annuitants named in my foregoing will, and that then the said residue and remainder, with all the accumulated interest thereof, shall be divided equally among my grandchildren, per stirpes, to hold to such grandchildren so distributed, and to their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. Hale
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.