Evans v. Boney’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 32 Cal. 2d 1 - Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co. v. Superior Court (1948), In Re Estate of Walker (1987)
35 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 Dahmer v. Wensler · Newton v. Seaman's Friend Society · Noble v. Tipton · Weller v. Noffsinger · Lincoln National Bank & Trust Co. v. Grainger
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Sixth: I have already deeded to my niece, Alta J. Pullman, the southeast quarter (SE 1/4) of section eight (8), township twenty-four (24), north range four (4), east of the 6th P.M. in Cuming county, Nebraska, and for that reason I do not devise any real estate to her in this Will.’ ” (See p. 419 of opinion.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The cardinal rule of testamentary construction is to ascertain the intention of the testator as expressed in his will, and to give it effect, unless the testator attempts to accomplish a purpose or to make a disposition contrary to some rule of law or public policy.” (See p. 420 of opinion).”
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.