Dills v. Deavors’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1978
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 Letcher's Trustee v. Letcher · Chappell v. Frick Co. · Carpenter v. Allen · Lindsay v. Williams · Walters v. Crutcher
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.
““It appears to be the prevailing rule that where land is conveyed or devised to several persons for life and at ‘their death’ to ‘their children’ or bodily heirs, the phrase ‘their death’ will be read ‘their respective deaths’ and the phrase ‘their children’ or ‘their bodily heirs’ will be read ‘their respective children’ or ‘their respective bodily heirs.’ ””
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.