Corbett Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2015
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
Relies on Houston Estate · McFerren Estate · Grier Estate · Brubaker v. Lauver · Calder'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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of a contrary intent appearing therein, wills shall be construed as to real and personal estate in accordance with the following rules: [a] specific devise or bequest of real or personal property passes that property subject to any security interest therein existing at the date of the testator’s death, without any right of exoneration out of any other estate of the testator regardless whether the security interest was created by the testator or by a previous owner and any general directive in the will to pay debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When precatory words are used merely for the purpose of advising or influencing, or expressive of a wish or desire that the legatee make a certain use of the testator’s bounty, they are not obligatory upon that to whom they are addressed; but when used to express his manifest intention to control or direct, they are mandatory, and will be so construed in saying what effect is to be given to them ...”
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.