Pease v. Whitlatch’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2020
5 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 In Re Estate of Trickett · Courtney v. Daniel · Spaniard v. Tantom · Riley v. Collier · In Re Revard's 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When any testator omits to provide in his will for any of his children, or for the issue of any deceased child unless it appears that such omission was intentional, such child, or the issue of such child, must have the same share in the estate of the testator, as if he had died intestate, and succeeds thereto as provided in the preceding section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Among my grandchildren are Bill Ray Whitlatch and Darlene Whitlatch, the son and daughter of my deceased son, Ora Elmer Whitlatch, Jr.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.