will
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 31 U.S. 68 - John Smith v. Robert Bell · 1832Most cited · 340 citing opinions
It is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and is defined to be 'the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death.
How often courts cite the case defining “will”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “will” — 340 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.