360 So. 2d 306 - Jacoway v. Brittain’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2012
9 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 Achelis v. Musgrove · Perdue v. Roberts · Sims v. Moore · Wiley v. Murphree · Roberts v. Cleveland
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The law says that where a latent ambiguity exists in a will, the court may resort to extrinsic evidence in ascertaining the intent of the testator. Perdue v. Roberts , 294 Ala. 194 , 314 So.2d 280 (1975). "`A latent ambiguity may arise in the identification of or application to the property or subject matter as described or bequeathed. See Wiley v. Murphree , 228 Ala. 64 , 151 So. 869 (1933). See also, Achelis v. Musgrove , 212 Ala. 47 , 101 So. 670 (1924). "`A latent ambiguity is to be distinguished from a patent ambiguity. A patent ambiguity is not a true ambiguity; it is merely confusion created on the face of the will by the use of defective, obscure or insensible language. On the other hand, a latent ambiguity occurs where the language is clear and intelligible, but when considered in light of certain extraneous facts, it takes on a multiple meaning. . . .'"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“all my personal property located in my home or on my property”
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.