Reardon v. McDougal’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1991
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State Bank of Chicago v. Gross · Benson v. Blair · Williams v. Smith · In Re Roberts'estate · Baldwin v. Collins
Most-quoted passages
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“This is not to say that under different and extenuating circumstances and facts that we will not consider such matters as contest of wills, complex tax matters and other thorny and burdensome problems and their possible effect upon the right of a legatee to receive interest. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glass v. Cross
How this case has been treated — in progress
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