122 Ind. App. 618 - Lewis v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2007
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Mitchell v. Mitchell · Snodgrass v. Brandenburg · Common Council of Richmond v. State ex rel. Mendenhall · Bartholomee v. Town of Lowell · Lumpkin v. Rodgers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[iJn determining the question of the testator's intention, ... it will be presumed [the testator] used precatory words in their ordinary and usual sense unless there is something to show that [the testator] intended that they be given a different meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We do not believe, however, that such a construction of the will is tenable. According to the great weight of authority the devise of a 'home' includes not only the testator's dwelling house but the entire parcel of real estate constituting the residential estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“home and residence located at 1006 N. Meridian Street in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana....”
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.