Hansen v. Vinal’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 882 · 1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1998
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Jackson v. United States · Allen v. United States · Bookwalter v. Lamar · In Re the Probate of the Will of Connell · Pettit v. Black
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court found that while the event of probate might occur within six months of the decedents’ death, it need not necessarily occur within six months, and, therefore, the grant failed to qualify for the marital deduction allowed by Section 2056. [[Image here]] While the nature of the interest passed is determined by state law, [footnote omitted] and while the applicable state laws favor early and indefeasible vesting of estates, each state recognizes the validity of an estate subject to a condition. [footnote omitted] A condition was imposed here — that the survivor live long enough to probate the will of the first to die. This condition can only be fulfilled by a judicial act — a determination by the proper court that the instrument offered is the validly executed last will and testament of the deceased, [footnote omitted] [[Image here]] In our view, the trial court correctly concluded that the condition was not violative of state public policy nor the testator’s intent. The statutory law of Nebraska requires that the will of a deceased person be filed, by the custodian or executor of the will within thirty days of the testator’s death or within thirty days after a person learns he has been named executor if he obtains such knowledge after the testator’s death, under pain of criminal liability. Revised Statutes of Nebraska, 1943, Reissue 1964, sections 30-213-216. [footnote omitted] We must presume that these laws will be complied with and that the instrument will be ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“2. The first to die does hereby give, devise and bequeath unto the survivor all of his or her property of every kind ¡and nature, both real and personal, to be the absolute property of such survivor for all intents and purposes. ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ❖ ⅜ 4. In the event that we the joint makers of his will should be taken from this life at or about the same time, or in the event the survivor should not live long enough to probate the will of the first to die, then and in that event, we the joint makers hereof make the following disposition of all our joint and separate property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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