Dalton v. Eash’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2005
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Gridley v. Gridley · Mettler v. Warner · Papa v. Papa
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A technical construction of words or phrases will not be carried to the extent of defeating the obvious general intention of the testator, and this intention will be given effect even though the language may not be clear or technically correct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as to any part of the testator's estate unless there is an apparent intention that the property should be excluded from the will”
1 later decision 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.