Witcher v. Witcher’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2007
8 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 Crossley v. Leslie · Fields v. Lewis · Gilmore v. Gilmore · Darnell v. Barton · Hudgens v. Wilkins
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since no language in the will plainly manifested an intention to divest the share of a son who survived the testator but died before the life tenant leaving no children to take the substitutionary gift, the deceased son's remainder was not divested and therefore descended to his heirs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Usry v. Farr“prevent a lapse of the devise to any son who died prior to the testator's death, leaving a child or children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Usry v. Farr“created a vested remainder interest in a class composed of the testator's sons”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Usry v. Farr
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.