Hinger v. Hnger’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 1958
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on John Smith v. Robert Bell · Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · Burleigh v. Clough · Boyd v. Strahan · McKenzie's Appeal from Probate
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What is the interest of Mrs. Hinger in her late husband’s residuary estate? It is clear in the first place that she has only a life estate. The will admits of no other construction. Even if a power of disposal be conceded to her, yet such power could not have the effect of defeating the remainder over by impliedly enlarging the life interest to an absolute one. * * * That ruling is in harmony with the general principle which, says Sugden in his work on Powers (Vol. 1, p. 123), must be conceded, viz., ‘that the law does not incline to enlarge express estates by implication.’ “There can thus be no doubt but that the interest of Mrs. Hinger is only one for life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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