Parks v. Lefeber’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1983
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Colton v. Colton · Chicago St Ry Co v. Des Moines Union Ry Co Des Moines Union Ry Co · Goad v. Montgomery · William Hill Co. v. Lawler · Orr v. Yates
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fourth. I desire and I hereby give my wife, full management and control of my estate with authority to sell and make deed or deeds of conveyance to any part or parts thereof, for the purpose of maintaining herself and our children, and for the purpose of reinvestment and to reinvest same as to her may seem for the best interest of our estate, and I hereby give her full authority to reinvest any part of said estate as to her may seem for the best interest of my estate, so long as she remains a widow, or so long as she may desire to hold the community estate together, she to be the exclusive judge of the necessity to sell, and of the kind of Investment to be made. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Under the statutes of Oklahoma, the title to property devised or bequeathed by the terms of a will passes by operation of law to the devisees and legatees, in accordance with the provisions of the will, immediately upon the death of the testator, subject to the control of the county court for the purpose of administration, to sale by order of the county court for the purpose of paying the debts of the decedent, costs of administration, or such other charges as may exist against it, subject to partition by order of the county court, and subject to such other orders as the county court is authorized to make with reference thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Davison“Under the rule stated in Hill v. Hill et al., 49 Okla. 424 , 152 P. 1122 , 1123; Hill et al. v. Hill et al., 54 Okla. 441 , 153 P. 1185 , * * * we hold that the testator intended to and did create a trust in his estate, and did thereby create Laura Parks the trustee of that trust estate, under the provisions of sections 11808, 11828, 11829, and 11830, O. S. 1931.”
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.