Friedman v. Sabot’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2005
8 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 In Re the Accounting of Security Trust Co. · Warner v. Baylor · Chavis v. Myrick · 106 So. 2d 215 - Park Lake Presbyterian Church v. Henry's Estate · Hill's Adm'rs v. Hill
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A general legacy was recently defined by this Court to be “one which is not limited to any particular fund or thing, does not direct the delivery of any particular property, and may be satisfied out of the general assets of the testator’s estate;” while a specific legacy is a bequest “of a specific thing, or some particular portion of the testator’s estate, which is so described by the testator as to distinguish it from other articles of the same nature.” Warner v. Baylor, Ex’r, 204 Va. 867, 874 , 134 S.E.2d 263, 269 (cites omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.