19 Ill. 2d 501 - Young v. Whisler’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2015
18 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 Carter v. Carter · Hedlund v. Miner · Krog v. Hafka · Stern v. Stern · 2 Ill. 2d 197 - Davidson v. Davidson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is readily apparent that the devise, ‘to my children, Zella Lee Rath and Thelma Louise Yoeman,’ falls within the rule that where legatees are named as individuals and also described as a class, and there is nothing more to show the testator’s intention, the gift by name constitutes a gift to individuals, to which the class description is added by way of identification. [Citations.] Moreover, the natural meaning of the words ‘my children’ in the phrase is to identify the legatees and their relationship to the testator. The words are in no way inconsistent with the two names which follow. Since the named individuals are both children of the testator, they are accurately described, and the existence of two other children by a former marriage does not impair the accuracy of that description, nor render it ambiguous.” Young, 19 Ill. 2d at 504-05 , 167 N.E.2d at 193 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is readily apparent that the devise, ‘to my children, Zella Lee Rath and Thelma Louise Yoeman,’ falls within the rule that where legatees are named as individuals and also described as a class, and there is nothing more to show the testator’s intention, the gift by name constitutes a gift to individuals, to which the class description is added by way of identification. [Citations.] Moreover, the natural meaning of the words ‘my children’ in the phrase is to identify the legatees and their relationship to the testator. The words are in no way inconsistent with the two names which follow.””
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.