Bricker's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 1984 · most notably Conlin Estate (1957), Armstrong Estate (1943)
43 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 In Re the Estate of Hayes · Ingham's Estate · Willard's Estate · Estate of Jacobs · Fuller's Estate
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A residuary clause is one which covers all of the estate not disposed of after providing for debts and particular legacies and devises. No technical mode of expression is necessary to constitute such a clause. 'Balance' is the vernacular for the legal phrase 'rest, residue and remainder': see Thompson's Estate , 237 Pa. 165 , 169 ; Taylor's Estate , 239 Pa. 153 , 163 . The word 'balance' in the fifth paragraph of this will must be interpreted as meaning 'balance of the estate,' there being no reason why it should be restricted to the balance of the fund derived from the items mentioned in the third paragraph: see In re Hayes' Will , 263 N.Y. 219 , 188 N.E. 716 . Whatever ambiguity exists must be resolved in accordance with the principle that a broad rather than a narrow construction of a residuary clause is favored in order to avoid intestacy, it being presumed that a testator intends to dispose of his whole estate: Fuller's Estate , 225 Pa. 626 , 629 ; Carson's Estate , 130 Pa. Super. 133 , 138.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haak's Estate“The balance, if any, to be divided into ten equal parts between . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haak'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.