Faith v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2019
24 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 Merrill v. Boal · Arendt v. Arendt · Gregory v. Welch · Stark v. Stark · Walpole v. Lewis
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A will is a disposition of property to take effect upon the death of the maker of the instrument. To be valid as a will an instrument must be executed with testamentary intent, or animus testandi. That merely means the intention to dispose of one’s property upon one’s death. By looking to the four corners of the instrument, we determine that intent. It is a question of law for the court to determine from the face of the instrument whether the writer intends to make a testamentary disposition. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Means
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.