Gaines v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1986
6 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 Gordon v. James · Anderson v. Gift · Agee v. Saunders · Bloodworth v. Stevens
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general rule that property constituting the residuum of testator’s estate and disposed of by the residuary clause is to be applied in the payment of debts and expenses before resorting to the specific bequests, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the absence of directions to the contrary in the will, the [devisees]... have the same interest in the income, rents, and profits of the property given them as they have in the property itself.”
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.