Parker v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1967 · most notably Harrington v. Cooper (1916), Matthiessen v. Commissioner (1925)
29 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 St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Haist · Guardianship of Cardwell · Campbell v. Clark · Merritt v. Wallace · Kiernan v. Blackwell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power of one, legally competent to make a will, to dispose of his property as he sees fit, subject to the restrictions provided by the statutes, is a legal incident to ownership. Ih construing the provisions of a will, the intention of the maker is first to be ascertained, and, when not at variance with recognized rules of law, must govern. The intention of the testator must be gathered from all parts of the will, and such construction be given as best comports with the purposes and objects of the testator, and as will least conflict.” See, also, Gregory v. Welch, 90 Ark. 152 .”
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.