Sardy v. Hodge’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2013
4 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 Smyth v. Anderson · Thomas v. Trust Co. Bank · Porter v. Frazier · Butts v. Trust Company of Georgia · Gresham v. Gannon
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he will is construed according to the law in effect at the time of the testator’s death. [Cits.] The presumption is that the testator “intended that his property should go where the law carries it____” [Cit.] The statutory change in the law [34] years after the testator’s death relating to the inheritance rights of [remaindermen] ... will not be given retrospective effect. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Folsom v. Rowell
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.