Pratt Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2002
22 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 2032 · 26 U.S.C. § 2033 · 26 U.S.C. § 2035 · 26 U.S.C. § 2042
Relies on Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co. v. Rothensies · United States v. O'MALLEY · Coane's Estate · 38 Del. Ch. 158 - Grone v. Economic Life Ins. Co. · Neller 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is well settled that where a testator in his will gives specified property or a share of his estate in exact or substantial compliance with the terms of his obligations under an inter vivos property settlement (or separation) agreement made with his wife, that wife is a creditor of his estate and not a legatee under his will. Mills Estate, 367 Pa. 504 , 80 A. 2d 809 . Cf. also, Neller Estate, 356 Pa. 628 , 53 A. 2d 122 ; Brown's Estate, 340 Pa. 350 , 17 A. 2d 331 ; Mahoney Estate, 356 Pa. 358 , 52 A. 2d 328 ; Coane's Estate, 310 Pa. 138 , 165 Atl. 2 ; Bowman v. Knorr (No. 1), 206 Pa. 270 , 55 Atl. 976 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zeitchick Estate
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.