Gesner v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2008
2 district · 14 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. § 2056
Relies on 88 N.J. Super. 278 - Gesner v. Roberts · 91 N.J. Super. 255 - Gesner v. Roberts · Plummer v. Archer
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . . Absent an express statement in the will, we should start with the assumption that the testator intended the maximum tax advantage for the estate and maximum benefit to the spouse within the limits of his gift to her. The plan of a will may of course suggest that a testator intended to depart from that approach.” ( 225 A.2d at 698 ).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“see no profit in searching for the actual intent of the testator....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.