Lenzen v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Lewis v. Hill (1944), 26 Ill. 2d 406 - Weir v. Leafgreen (1962)
5 federal appellate · 19 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 13 E.H. Smith 514 - Crawford v. . McCarthy · Tifft v. . Porter · Baker v. Baker · Tanton v. Keller · Maxim v. Maxim
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A general legacy is a gift of personal property by ■will, not amounting to a bequest of a particular thing or of particular money or of a particular fund which is designated and distinguished in the will from all others of the same kind. A specific legacy is a bequest of a specific article or of a particular fund which the will distinguishes from all the rest of the testator’s estate of the same kind.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he inclination of the courts is to hold legacies to be general or demonstrative rather than specific, and to make a legacy specific, the terms employed in the will must clearly require such a construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wexman v. Wexman
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.