Papen v. Papen’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2013
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Ferguson v. Ferguson · Timberlake v. State-Planters Bank of Commerce & Trusts · 29 Ill. 2d 253 - Champaign County Bank & Trust Co. v. Jutkins · Wilson v. Francis · Patton v. Patton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the presumed intent of a testator that any provision in his will for the benefit of his spouse be terminated in the event of their divorce.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The statute] merely shifts to the testator the burden of taking the affirmative action to reverse the intent implicit in the law. The [legislature], in evaluating the advisability of changing the law, undoubtedly concluded that the number of forgetful testators who would be benefited by the statute far exceeded the number of careful testators who might be inconvenienced by its enactment. We perceive no reason why the beneficial effect of the statute should be denied to those whose divorces have antedated its enactment.”
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.