Wager v. . Wager’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1969 · most notably Tilden v. . Green (1891), Hardy v. Mayhew (1910)
1 district · 37 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 Terry v. . Wiggins · Campbell v. . Beaumont · Norris v. . Beyea · Taggart v. . Murray · McLean v. . Freeman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule that a limitation over to one cannot be based upon a primary devise of an absolute estate to another is founded entirely upon the supposed intention of the testator.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilliam v. Mahon
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.