Richards v. Liles’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on M. A. P. v. Ryan · Heller v. Commissioner · Pascucci v. Alsop · Washington Public Power Supply System v. Federal Power Commission · Clawans v. Sheetz
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rests on the assumption based upon common knowledge and experience that it is so rare and so unusual for a testator under these circumstances to desire or intend that his divorced spouse should benefit further under his will, that it is not improper or unreasonable to require that such a testator make that extraordinary desire and intention manifest by a formal republication of his will or by the execution of a new will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bolle v. Hume
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.