Dillender v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 11 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If a devisee or legatee dies before the testator, or is dead at the making of the will, leaving issue who survive the testator, such issue shall take the estate devised' or bequeathed, as the devisee or legatee would have done if he had survived the testator, unless a different disposition thereof is made or required by the will.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Belew v. Sharp · Taylor v. Minish

2. ““If section 4841 of the Statutes may not be applied to the simple facts of this case,, we hardly see how it could ever be made effective. We have the sole devisee of the entire estate dying before the testator, leaving a child surviving her. It is suggested that this statute was intended to include only children or lineal descendants of the testator and not strangers in blood. Such a construction would violate the clearly expressed terms of the act and destroy its purpose and effect.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tagnon's Administratrix v. Tagnon

3. ““Where the bequest is of the entire estate, no matter how it may have been changed in form or character, it is just as capable of passing under the will on the death of testator as on the date it was executed. Hence there was no ademption of the devise to the widow of testator.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tagnon's Administratrix v. Tagnon