Bottomley v. Bottomley’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Robert (1962), In Re Estate of Cook (1965)
30 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 Noice v. Schnell · 133 N.J. Eq. 421 - In Re the Estate of Fisler · Swetland v. Swetland · Hewitt v. Green · 123 N.J. Eq. 21 - First Nat. Bank of Toms River v. Levy
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effectuate the manifest intent of a testator by inserting omitted words, by altering the collocation of sentences, or even by reading his will directly contrary to its primary signification ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although decisions of the courts of the several states reflect a lack of uniformity touching the enforcement of no-contest provisions, the clear weight of the authorities exempts from forfeiture a beneficiary who participates, in invitum, in proceedings for construction only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to prevent the intention of the testator from being defeated by a mistaken use of language.”
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.