Weakley v. Weakley’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2011
5 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 Hanks v. McDanell · Berner v. Luckett, Comm. of Revenue · Price v. Price
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.
““ * * * But the problem with which we are presented here is, whether or not the life tenant in cases where the testator has used such expressions as ‘to do as he pleases with,’ or ‘to do with as he sees fit’ has the right to encroach and use the estate during the term of the life tenancy. * * * We believe that when a testator uses such words he means that the first donee may use the estate for his own purposes and if any of it is left over, it shall go to the second donee. * * * It is difficult to conceive of a case where a person would write such an expression where he did not intend that the life tenant would have broad powers to sell and dispose of the estate. * ‡ ⅜»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Mitchell
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.