721 So. 2d 995 - Dupuy v. Walther’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 332 So. 2d 439 - Carter v. Succession of Carter · 292 So. 2d 536 - Succession of Killingsworth · Succession of Walters · 609 So. 2d 1035 - Succession of Meeks · STATE, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Jones
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term "personal belongings," when given its usual and ordinary meaning, would not include business property and various financial holdings. When used in a testament the term enjoys no settled or fixed technical meaning but would include those things which had some intimate relation to the person of the testratrix such as household items, jewelry, home furnishings, clothing and other items which are truly personal in nature. To hold that financial and business assets would fall within the category of "personal belongings" would give that term a strained meaning, ignoring its restrictive nature and proper signification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I desire that all my personal belongings be given to my brother.”
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.