Tyer v. . Meadows’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1979
3 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 Heyer v. . Bulluck · Patterson v. . McCormick · Starbuck v. . Starbuck · King v. . Sellers · Grogan v. . Ashe
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ademption, in law, denotes the destruction, revocation or cancellation of a legacy in accordance with the intention of the testator and results either from express revocation or is implied from acts done by the testator in his lifetime, evincing an intention to revoke or cancel the legacy. (Emphasis ours) “. . . In applying the test it is well to bear in mind the wise utterance of Pearson, C.J., in Nooe v. Vannoy, 59 N.C. 185 : ‘But it is unusual for a • father to adeem, in this manner, legacies given to children and exclude them from his contemplated bounty, when there has been no change of circumstances; and for this reason the Court is slow to adopt the conclusion that it is an ademption and will seek, anxiously, for some mode of explanation.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grant v. Banks
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.