Atkinson v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2023
9 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 Mueller v. Novelty Dye Works · Eau Claire National Bank v. Benson · Krakow v. Wille · Newport Water Works v. Sisson · Walker v. Waters
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The great weight of authority at common law, independent of statute, holds that testator’s execution of a will with a specific devise of land and his later sale of this land works an ademption of the devise in his will Nevertheless, this court in the Atkinson Case reluctantly affirmed the court’s interpretation of the statute in the Lefebvre Case: “. . . If we were to pass on the applicability of that statute [sec. 238.02 (1)] without the fetters of the Le-febvre precedent, we would have difficulty in reaching this result.” Estate of Atkinson, supra, at page 277.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Every devise of land in any will shall be construed to convey all the estate of the devisor therein which he could lawfully devise, unless it shall clearly appear by the will .that the devisor intended to convey a less estate.””
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.