Farley v. Fullerton’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1959
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dennis v. Holsapple · Guthrie v. Guthrie · Bishop & Babcock Sales Co. v. Brogan · Bosserman v. Burton · Schott v. Schott
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that extrinsic evidence has to be resorted to in order to ascertain the person intended to be the beneficiary of a bequest does not create an ambiguity as to the intention of the testatrix . . .” (p. 763.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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