Dunlap v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 1984
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brandeis v. Brandeis · Tyler v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co. · Attebery v. Prentice · Blochowitz v. Blochowitz · Kramer v. Larson
Most-quoted passages
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“Where there is a doubt as to the distribution of property under a will, the heirs at law will be favored, and, so far as consistent with the terms of the will, or the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, the law of descent will be followed as presumptively in accord with the intention of the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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