McCurdy v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1965
18 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 Duncan v. De Yampert · White v. Fowler · Wilson v. Ward
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The settled law is that a will speaks from the death of the testator, and that, in the absence of a clear manifestation of the testator’s intent to the contrary, estates shall be held to vest at the earliest possible period. The intent to postpone the vesting of an estate must be clear, and must not arise by mere inference or construction. “The law will not construe a limitation in a will into an executory devise when it can tal^p effect as a remainder, nor a remainder to be contingent when it can be taken to be vested.” * * Duncan v. De Yampert et al., 182 Ala. 528 , 62 So. 673, 674 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Springer v. Vickers
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.