Morris v. Finkelstein’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1999
9 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 Republic National Bank of Dallas v. Fredericks · Calvery v. Calvery · Briggs v. Peebles · Ferguson v. Ferguson · Heller v. Heller
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The basic purpose of a residuary clause such as paragraph III is to prevent partial intestacy. Where one is contained in a will every presumption will be made against intended intestacy. Sanger v. Butler, 45 Tex.Civ.App. 527 , 101 S.W. 459 , writ ref.; Heller v. Heller, 114 Tex. 401 , 269 S.W. 771 , (Comm.App.); Goggans v. Simmons, Tex.Civ.App., 319 S.W.2d 442 , writ ref., n. r. e.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swearingen v. Giles
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.