King v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2006
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yeates v. Box · Warren v. Ingram · LANHAM v. Howell · Pate v. Evans
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the residue of my said estate, real, personal or mixed of whatever kind or description and wherever situated to be used by her in any way she deems fit so long as she remains unmarried. . . . If my said wife, Mrs. Esther Barnes King, should remarry then any property of my estate remaining at such remarriage shall descend to my legal heirs, that is to my said wife and my said children or to the legal heirs of such child if any of said children should be dead, in the same way as though this will and testament should not have been executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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