Points v. Points’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2009
15 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 Hanks v. McDanell · Irwin v. Westwood Real Estate and Development Co. · Cecil v. Cecil · Ellison v. Smoot's Adm'r · Price v. Price
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel agrees that the word "if" is a typical conditional particle used to introduce another part of a sentence. Here it means "in the event," or as we held in Ellison v. Smoot's Adm'r., 286 Ky. 768 , 151 S.W.2d 1017, 1019 , the word is synonymous with the expression "in case that." We have no difficulty in concluding what testator intended by the use of the quoted words. ( 227 S.W.2d at 915 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.