Givens v. Ott’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1952
14 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 Craig v. Leslie · 6 E.H. Smith 475 - Moffett v. . Elmendorf · Baker v. Copenbarger · Mandlebaum v. McDonell · McCune v. Goodwillie
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.
““In arriving at this conclusion we indulge the presumption, that where a testator executes a will, it is presumed he intended to dispose of his entire estate thereby, and not to die intestate as to a portion of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myers v. Smith
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.