Galloway v. Darby’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Parsons v. Federal Realty Corp. (1931), Bittner v. Bittner (1932)
2 federal appellate · 59 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 Riker v. . Cornwell · Booe v. Vinson · In Re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wells · Watson v. Wolff-Goldman Realty Co. · Lamb v. . Lamb
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A presumption arises for the residuary legatee against every one except the particular legatee; for a testator is supposed to give his personalty away from the former only for the sake of the latter. It has been said that, • to prevent a bequest of the residue from having this sweeping effect, very special words are required, and accordingly a residuary bequest of property ‘not specifically given/ following various specific and general legacies, will include lapsed specific legacies.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Spier's Estate““When technical phrases or terms of art are used, it is fair to presume that the testator understood their meaning, and that they expressed the intention of his will, according to their import and signification. When certain terms or words have by repeated adjudication received a precise, definite and legal construction, if the testator in making his will use such terms or similar expressions, they shall be construed according to their legal effect ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crittenden v. Lytle
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.