Oroszy v. Burkard’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2016
9 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 Succession of La Barre · Succession of Fertel · Wilson v. Snow · Succession of Price · Jones v. Kyle
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We find no merit to defendants' argument that the words `wish' and `hope' are precatory. While it is true that either or both of those words may be used in such a way as to constitute a part of a precatory suggestion in a will, it is also true that the same words, depending on the way they are used, may be mandatory or dispositive. The word `wish,' in fact, is commonly used in making testamentary dispositions. In Succession of Rougon, supra, for instance, our Supreme Court held that provisions of a will in which the words `wish' and `desire' were used were not mere precatory suggestions, but that the bequests expressed in those words were couched in `language ordinarily and usually dispositive.'" [ 158 So.2d 405, 411 ]”
2 later decisions 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.