Willis v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Wyman v. Roesner (1981), Austin v. Pepperman (1965)
33 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 Towle v. Swasey · Gardner v. McNeal · Giddings v. . Seward · Prendergast v. Walsh · Pope v. Hinckley
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A demonstrative legacy is a bequest of money or other fungible goods, charged upon a particular fund in such way as not to amount to a gift of the corpus of the fund, or to evince an intention to relieve the general estate from liability in case the fund fail, and so described as to be undistinguishable from other things of the same kind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Austin v. Pepperman“A demonstrative legacy bears some likeness to a specific legacy in that it is charged upon or its payment directed from a named fund, but it is in fact a type of general legacy, payable from the general estate, in case the specified fund fails. (Citations Omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Austin v. Pepperman“A specific legacy is a bequest of a particular article or specific part of the testator's estate which is so described and distinguished from all other articles or parts of the same as to be capable of being identified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Austin v. Pepperman
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.