Lindeburg v. Lindeburg’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2018
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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 3101
Relies on Wissner v. Wissner · Miller, Et Vir v. Carr · Chilwell v. Chilwell · 93 Cal. App. 2d 808 - Kauffman v. Kauffman · Von Der Lippi-Lipski v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In a contract to make a will, the promisor has the right to change his will, and * * * the right being enforced against the promisor is the contract right, and not the will, in the case of the breached contract to make a will, * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharps v. Sharps
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.