Barnes v. Sewell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 2005
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Holcomb v. Mullin · Goforth v. Goforth · Binns v. Vick
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gift by will of a specific article or part of the testator's estate, which is identified and distinguished from all other parts of the same kind, and which may be satisfied only by the delivery of the particular thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all monies I may possess, my checking account monies, savings account monies, Certificates of Deposits, bonds of any nature and other evidence of debt such as promissory notes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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