Kitchen v. Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 2007
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 192nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Stauffer v. Henderson · Chopin v. Interfirst Bank Dallas N A · Stauffer v. Henderson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he legislature wisely intended to require a specific, definite written agreement before such property would be allowed to pass outside a testamentary instrument, thereby eliminating the increasing and time-consuming burden upon our trial courts of attempting to ascertain a deceased’s intent through the uncertain avenue of extrinsic parol evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holmes v. Beatty“Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship”; or”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beatty v. Holmes
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.