Brady v. Paine’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 262 Ill. App. 3d 163 - In Re Estate of McCormick (1994), Parsell v. Sibert (1975)
32 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 Lewis v. Hill · Cole v. Cole · Calhoun v. the MacCabees · Loomis v. Riley · Davis v. Lang
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Ademption of a specific legacy or devise is the extinction, alienation, withdrawal or satisfaction of the legacy or devise by some act of the testator by which an intention to revoke is indicated; the doing of some act with regard to the subject matter of the devise which interferes with the operation of the will. It signifies an alteration in the subject matter of the legacy or devise. [Citations.] The doctrine of ademption applies to devises of real estate as well as to bequests of personal property. [Citation.] The rule is well settled that if the testator, in his lifetime, disposes of property specifically devised by him, this will operate as a revocation of the devise." ( Brady v. Paine (1945), 391 Ill. 596, 600-01 .)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule is well settled that if the testator, in his lifetime, disposes of property specifically devised by him, this will operate as a revocation of the devise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parsell v. Sibert
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.