Whitehill v. Halbing’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2000
2 district · 17 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 Williams v. Miles · Hatheway v. Smith · Kern v. Kern · Pickens v. Davis · Lane v. Hill
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [the document] is a will, it must have that essential quality of a will which is expressed by the word”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“If this declaration of intention is not a will, by the terms of the statute no will is revoked by it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“. It is this ambulatory quality which forms the characteristic of wills.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.