Dublin Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2004
23 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 Taylor's Estate · Estate of Lawrence · Wolfe v. Lewisburg Trust & Safe Deposit Co. · Phillips v. Phillips · Lyman 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . ‘Bequeath’ is properly applied to gifts by will of personal property, and not realty. . . . The term ‘devise’ is the proper term to be used in a will to denote a gift of real property . . . . It is true that the word ‘devise’ is sometimes used in a will interchangeably with ‘bequeath,’ . . . nevertheless the fact that the testator . . used ‘bequeath’ in paragraph three and ‘devise and bequeath’ in paragraph four is some evidence that in paragraph three he had in contemplation only personal property, and in paragraph four he had in contemplation real property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Felice
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.