Neblett v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2012
23 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 John Smith v. Robert Bell · Campbell v. Campbell · Mary Lucinda Bosley v. Margaret E. Wyatt · Coffman's Adm'r v. Coffman · Hatcher v. Hatcher
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only reason anyone can have for making a will is to change the devolution of his property from that prescribed by the statutes of descent and distributions. Hence there is a strong presumption that the testator intended to dispose of his entire estate, and courts are decidedly averse to adopting any construction of a will which leaves a testator intestate as to any portion of his estate, unless compelled to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arnold v. Groobey““We cannot hold that the rule that a testator is presumed to have intended not to die intestate as to any part of his estate is of greater force than the rule that an heir is not to be disinherited except by express words or necessary implication. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jessup v. Jessup““ * * # there are few testators whose settled purpose was to leave untouched a part of their estate, and a residuary clause adds force to this rule. “Testators write wills that their estates may pass under them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arnold v. Groobey
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.