Rivet v. Battistella’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 1991 · most notably Succession of Feitel (1937), 574 So. 2d 348 - Succession of Wallace (1991)
46 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 In re Estate of Ogier · In Re the Accounting of Caldwell · Pickett's Will · Succession of Serres · In Re the Accounting of Wallach
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the donor may impose on the donee any charges or conditions he pleases, provided they contain nothing contrary to law or good morals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... this is entirely within the rights of the testator. See Succession of Serres, 135 La. 1005 , 66 So. 342 .”
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.