Thomas, Administrator v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1963
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Trustees Presbyterian Church v. Mize · Lindenberger v. Cornell · Young's Guardian v. Shaver's · Beemon v. Utz · Kelly v. Anderson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the construction of wills the rule is that it will be presumed that the testator did not intend to die intestate as to any of his property, and, if the will is susceptible of two interpretations, the one disposing of all of the property and the other not, the court will prefer the construction by which the whole of the testator’s estate is disposed of. Young’s Guardian v. Shaver’s Executrix, 186 Ky. 608 , 217 S. W. 902 ; Alsip v. Morgan, 109 S. W. 312 , 33 Ky. Law Rep. 72 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.