Gay's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 1951
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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.
““Included in this distribution are all legacies of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) as heretofore given by me, the payment of which shall not have been made, by reason of the failure on the part of the persons entitled to exercise his, her or their powers of appointment, or by reason of there being no persons in being authorized to take under such power of appointment . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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