Medary v. Dalman’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2013
4 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 47 So. 2d 602 - Dade County v. Brigham · Smith v. Smith · Spina v. Spina · Quinn v. Reilly · 49 So. 2d 535 - Barnett Nat. Bank of Jacksonville v. Murrey
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.
“either owns the entire property, or title to one-fourth of it has vested in him by virtue of his wife’s will. This is a case where the donee would not receive under the will a benefit to which he would not be entitled except for the will, in which event no election is required. A renunciation in such a case would be more of form than of substance, for even if he lost in his suit to establish a resulting trust on the theory that the property is not part of the wife’s estate and consequently not subject to devise, he would still be entitled to take under the will.”
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.