Bergin v. Bergin’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Norvell Estate (1964), Hysaw v. Dawkins (2016)
74 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 Gibbons v. Mahon · McMurry v. Stanley · Minot v. Paine · Darragh v. Barmore · Langehennig v. Hohmann
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order that effect may be given the entire will, it necessarily must be construed as a whole. The intention of the testator must be ascertained by viewing the will in its entirety and all the provisions of the will must be looked to for the purpose of ascertaining the real intention of the testator, and if this can be ascertained from the language of the instrument, then any particular paragraph which, if considered alone, might indicate a contrary intention, must yield to the intention manifested by the whole instrument. See Darragh v. Barmore, supra [Tex.Com.App., 242 S.W. 714 ]; McMurray v. Stanley, 69 Tex. 227 , 6 S.W. 412 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If we thus recognize a right in the life tenant to undistributed profits, a large number of life estates will inevitably involve complicated and difficult problems of accounting, which may run back years, and perhaps even reach into the propriety of the accounting methods of the corporation concerned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.