Morgan v. Leach’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2014
5 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 624 So. 2d 1156 - Succession of Lauga · Ayres v. BEAUREGARD ELEC. COOPERATIVE, INC. · Succession of Chauvin · Winsberg v. Winsberg · 624 So. 2d 1201 - Succession of Terry
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The above cited code articles direct us to interpret a testament in a way that furthers, rather than frustrates, the testator's lawful intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] disposition must be understood in the sense in which it can have effect, rather than that in which it can have none,”
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.