McGehee v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
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.
“[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“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.