Beatty v. Hottenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 1981
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Snyder's Estate · Gerlach Estate · Roberts Will · Roberts Extate
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a gift by will of a specific article or part of the testator's estate, which is identified and distinguished from all other things of the same kind, and which may be satisfied only by the delivery of the particular thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estate of Taylor
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.