Cattell v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1962
4 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 Alexander Finlay v. William King's Lessee · In re Shumway's Estate · Johnson v. Skinner · Foster v. Stevens · Murdoch v. Bilderback
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The language in the Evans will does not expressly state that testator’s son and daughter shall not take intestate property as heirs, and such a conclusion is not necessarily implied by the language of the will. The language used by the testator appears to be merely explanatory. At the time the will was executed it is clear the testator intended that all of his property should pass by operation of his will and therefore did not contemplate leaving any intestate property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Martz's Estate““I give nothing, except the two legacies above provided for, to the immediate members of my family because in the separation from my wife I paid a large sum which I feel is all they are entitled to out of my estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Martz's Estate
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.