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187 F.2d 357 · 1950
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Durham v. United States (1954), Manzanares v. Bell (1974)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 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 the Probate of the Will of Smith · Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of New York City v. Kaufman · Mead v. Phillips · 65 F. Supp. 138 - Bonbrest v. Kotz · George Washington University v. Riggs Nat. Bank of Washington
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.
“shall be valid unless the same shall be made at least one calendar month before the death of the testator.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I concur in Judge Prettyman's opinion, though I think it would be possible to base affirmance on another theory. D.C.Code (1940) § 19-202, which we quote in footnote 1, provides that no bequest to a religious sect shall be valid "unless the same shall be made at least one calendar month before the death of the testator." In my opinion it would not be unreasonable to hold that this restricts only the making of wholly or partly new bequests, not the mere restatement of existing ones, and that the residuary clause in the will of July 14 is therefore valid. (Emphasis added.) (187 F.2d at 361.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The common law, all British statutes in force in Maryland on February 27, 1801, the principles of equity and admiralty, all general Acts of Congress not locally inapplicable in the District of Columbia, and all Acts of Congress by their terms applicable to the District of Columbia and to other places under the jurisdiction of the United States, in force in the District of Columbia on March 3, 1901, shall remain in force except in so far as the same are inconsistent with, or are replaced by, subsequent legislation of Congress. According to the annotation in Vol. 19,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.