Matheny v. Matheny’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 1994
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Weiss v. Soto · 122 W. Va. 559 - In Re: Conley · Weiss v. Soto · 171 W. Va. 226 - In Re the Estate of Teubert · Buchwald v. Buchwald
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ “Wherever possible to bring into operation a testator’s intention, a court will give such construction to a will as to bring into effect every word or part thereof and such construction will be made as to avoid the creation of intestacy.” In Re: Conley, 122 W.Va. 559, 562 [, 12 S.E.2d 49, 51 (1940) ].’ Syl. pt. 3, Rastle v. Gamsjager, 151 W.Va. 499 , 153 S.E.2d 403 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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