Murray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
February 2000
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trimble v. Gordon · Pendleton v. Pendleton · Holloway v. Brown · Nance's Executors v. Akers · Cherry v. Mitchell
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.
“If a devisee or legatee dies before the testator, or is dead at the making of the will, leaving issue who survive the testator, such issue shall take the estate devised or bequeathed, as the devisee or legatee would have done if he had survived the testator, unless a different disposition thereof is made or required by the will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blevins v. Moran
How this case has been treated — in progress
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