Guy v. Liederbach’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 276 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 420 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Eisenberg v. Gagnon (1985), Vattimo v. Lower Bucks Hospital, Inc. (1983)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 276 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Estate of Imbruglia
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 420 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is that between the testator and the attorney for the drafting of a will. The will, providing for one or more named beneficiaries, clearly manifests the intent of the testator to benefit the legatee.... Since only named beneficiaries can bring suit, they meet the first step standing requirement of § 302.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.