Eichhorn v. Morat’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 1967 · most notably Prather v. Watson's (1920), Russell v. Tyler (1928)
38 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 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church v. Mitchell · Bedford v. Bedford's Administrator · Howard v. Cole · Wickersham v. Wickersham · Fowler v. Mercer's
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In other words, as it has often been expressed, it is incompetent by tMs character of proof to show what the testator intended to say, but did not, but it may be shown what was intended by what he did say.” Eichhorn v. Morat, 175 Ky. 80 , 193 S. W. 1013 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It (the rule) does no violence to the rule against the substitution of a devisee when none is mentioned,-nor. does it tend to manifest an intention which the testatrix had entirely omitted. ””
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.