Maddox v. Butchee’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1991
22 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 Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Willis · Succession of Reilly · Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. v. Louisiana Ave. Realty Co. · Succession of Ledbetter · Succession of Hall
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At my Death I donate and bequeath all the property I then own to my husband Wesley Maddox after his death it is to go to my great niece Johnnie Tilley”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every disposition by which the donee, the heir, or legatee is charged to preserve for or to return a thing to a third persons is null, even with regard to the donee, the instituted heir or the legatee. In consequence of this article the trebellianic portion of the civil law, that is to say, the portion of the property of the testator, which the instituted heir had a right to detain, when he was charged with a fidei commissa or fiduciary bequest is no longer a part of our law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A bequest of property to one legatee with the stipulation and on the condition that at his death and without an act of conveyance from him it shall belong to another legatee named in the 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.