239 Mo. App. 555 - Bostian v. Milens’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1993 · most notably Martin v. McGrath (1951), Hardenbergh v. Commissioner (1952)
4 federal appellate · 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 Perry v. Strawbridge · Richardson v. Cole · Bank of Willow Springs v. Lillibridge · In re the Estate of Mahlstedt · Geist v. City of St. Louis
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the owner of property dies without a will, the title to such property passes at common law by force of the rules of law which apply to such a situation. No voluntary act on the part either of the former owner who is dead, or of the subsequent owner who takes by intestate succession, is of any legal significance. As a part of this general theory of intestate succession, the heir, next of kin, etc., have no power to prevent the passage of title to themselves by any renunciation, disclaimer and the like, * * *.”
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.