Luke v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re the Estate of Stevenson · In Re Estate of Klauzer · Briggs v. Briggs · Border States Paving, Inc. v. State Ex Rel. South Dakota Department of Transportation · In Re Estate of Brownlee
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. (citing Vitiauts M. Gulbis, Annotation, Wills: Gifts To Persons Individually Named But Also Described In Terms Of Relationship To Testator Or Another As Class Gift, 13 A.L.R.4th 978 § 2(a) (1982 & Supp.2004)). Ernest Samuelson excluded Eleanor West specifically by name and relationship. [¶ 17] Section 30.1-04-01(2), N.D.C.C., provides:”
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.