Elliott v. Brintlinger’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1997
18 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 Robison v. Female Orphan Asylum of Portland · Glover v. Condell · Sherman v. Flack · Harvey v. Ballard · Jackson v. Knapp
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine is based upon the presumed intention of the testat[rix] that the remain-derman should take upon the happening of any event that prevents, destroys or terminates the prior estate. * * * * * * Although the doctrine of acceleration applies more commonly where there is a renunciation of the prior estate, it also applies where the preceding estate fails for any reason... .[The life beneficiary] having died before the will took effect, so that the devise and the trust for his benefit failed, the remainder was accelerated and took effect at once.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"There is no lapse if the will provides a gift over to a second devisee or legatee after the death of the first." ( Elliott v. Brintlinger (1941), 376 Ill. 147, 151 , 33 N.E.2d 199, 201 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.