Addicks v. Addicks’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1981
11 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 Purdy v. . Hayt · Lombard v. Witbeck · Dana v. . Murray · Cheney v. Teese · Dow v. Doyle
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary that there be express words of limitation in a will to create cross-remainders, but they will be implied where necessary to carry out the testator's intention. This appears to us a proper case for the application of the doctrine of cross-remainders. The only expressed intention of the testator as to the children of George B. Addicks is that they shall share in his estate when the life estate of the two sons is terminated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Young's Will“It is never allowable to apply the doctrine of cross-remainders to defeat the testator's intention, but such remainders are favored by the law to carry out his intentions. In our opinion the construction we have given the will of B. Gerhard Addicks gives effect to his intention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Young's Will
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.