Cater v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2016
15 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 Hinson v. Naugher · Dent v. Foy · Kelly v. Richardson · Foster v. Foster · Rutledge v. Fishburne
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While it may be conceded that the property, both real and personal, not specifically devised may be charged with the payment of debts so as to relieve the property specifically devised from the burden, nevertheless property so specifically devised is not wholly relieved, and must contribute ratably to the payment of the debts. May et al. v. Burns , [ 222 Ala. 68 , 131 So. 232 (1930)]."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Under the common law, all devises of real estate owned by the testator on the date of the execution of the will were specific devises, and this rule is not modified by the statute, except as to real estate disposed of by residuary devise and real estate acquired by the testator after the execution of the will."”
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.