Dickey v. Walrond’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably 166 Cal. App. 2d 59 - Kunakoff v. Woods (1958), Estate of J. S. Ferry v. Lucas (1961)
30 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 McConnell v. Doolittle · Estate of Watts · Gray v. Union Trust Co. · In Re Estate of Trickett · Barnett v. Barnett
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the estate in fee should pass as follows: An undivided one-half to his wife and an undivided one-fourth to each son, qualified, however, by the following language, to wit: `In the event of the death of my said wife during the life of this trust, then the undivided one-half part that would otherwise have gone to her shall go to her heirs at law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the persons who would by the statute succeed to the real estate (or, in California, estate of any kind) in case of intestacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are those whom the law appoints to succeed to his estate in case he dies without disposing of it by will.”
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.