Hunsinger v. Landgren’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably 70 Cal. 2d 150 - Callnon v. Winrott (1969), 160 Cal. App. 2d 332 - McQuarrie v. Kuttler (1958)
64 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 O'Connor v. Murphy · In Re the Estate of Carrillo · Blakeslee v. Allen · Gracey v. City of Merced · In re Estate of Miller
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing said will, we must bear in mind that `The very fact of making a will raises a presumption that the testatrix intended to dispose of all of her property.' (26 Cal.Jur., p. 899.) Whenever a disputed word or phrase may be reasonably given either of two meanings, that meaning should be given which will prevent intestacy. While this rule is codified as to total intestacy (Prob. Code, sec. 102), the principle is also applicable to avoid partial intestacy. [Citations.] In other words, constructions which lead to either total or partial intestacy are not favored. [Citations.] We must further bear in mind that technical words are not always to be taken in their technical sense when used in a will. A non-technical meaning may be given to such words where the will is drawn solely by the testatrix and it appears that she was not familiar with such technical terms. [Citations.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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