Rufty v. Brantly’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2018
19 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 John Smith v. Robert Bell · Eagle v. Oldham · Union Trust Company v. Madigan · Ellsworth v. Arkansas Natl. Bk., Trustee · Murphy v. Morris
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is, however, inflexible that surrounding circumstances cannot be resorted to for the purpose of importing into the will any intention which is not there expressed, and when a will is not ambiguous in terms it is unnecessary to resort to testimony as to the surrounding circumstances in order to ascertain its meaning.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““However, a clear gift to one for life, without a limitation over, is held not enlarged to a fee by such •omission, unless a declared purpose is shown to dispose •of all the testator’s estate by will ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Copeland v. Harness
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.