Busick v. Busick’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Burrell v. Jean (1925), 176 Ind. App. 299 - Hayes v. Second Nat. Bank of Richmond (1978)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Moore v. Lyons · Hauk v. State · Heilman v. Heilman · Aldred v. Sylvester · Bruce v. Bissell
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Likewise the word ‘descend’ is sometimes used in the sense of ‘go’ and will be held to have been so used where such meaning seems to more effectually carry out the intention of the testator.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.