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← 268 Va. 15 - McGehee v. Edwards

McGehee v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
September 2011
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Shevel's, Inc. v. Southeastern Associates, Inc. · Commerce Trust Company v. Weed · Jenkins v. Bay House Associates, L.P. · 160 W. Va. 711 - Wheeling Dollar Savings & Trust Co. v. Hanes · Horne v. Horne

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]e construe the language in a will as if the testator executed it immediately before death unless the will shows a contrary intent.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the interests of beneficiaries accrue at the testator's death”
    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.