intestacy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 2 U.S. 266 - German v. Wainwright · 1796Most cited · 1 citing opinions
The next of kin are only entitled to personal estate, in the case of intestacy; and a man cannot be intestate, who has made an Executor.
How often courts cite the case defining “intestacy”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “intestacy” — 11 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.