Witteman v. Dunkle’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2019
7 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 Lincoln Properties, Inc. v. Goldslager · Lessee of Cochran's Heirs v. Loring · 15 Ohio App. 2d 126 - In Re Estate of Witteman
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.
““ * * * If there is no devise of any real property by a testator except a devise of ‘all of my real property,’ as in this case, such devise is the substantial equivalent of and amounts to a residuary devise of the testator’s real property.” 21 Ohio St. 2d at page 8 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berger v. Berger“a specific devise is a devise of a part or all of or an interest in some particular real estate described by the will so as to distinguish it from real estate generally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chambers v. Bockman“Certainly, there is nothing -8- Clermont CA2019-03-027 in the devise * * * to indicate that it is specific in any respect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chambers v. Bockman
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.