99 Ind. App. 680 - Runyan v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1993
21 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 Dollander v. Dhaemers · Kilgore v. Kilgore · West v. Rassman · Allen v. Boardman · Porter v. Union Trust Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A devise to the “heir” of a named person, whether the testator or another, is ordinarily, in the absence of any expression showing a contrary intention, taken as a direction for distribution per stirpes. A gift of personal property to “heirs” is, in effect to those who would take under the statute of descent and distribution; and in the same proportions as they would take under such statute.’ 2 Page, on Wills (2nd Ed.) Sec. 946, p. 1587.” (pp. 683, 684.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Lee
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.