Thornton Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 1981
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mayhew's Estate · Estate of Stevens · Collins Estate · 32 Cal. 2d 372 - Buck v. Peterson · Howlett 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The statutory order of abatement is not based on testator’s presumed priority of abatement but rather on a state policy of what class of people should keep their specific devises and bequests at the expense of other specific devisees and legatees who must first pay for the estate’s deficiencies.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Bestwick
How this case has been treated — in progress
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