Dominguez v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2012
12 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 Barney v. Hutchinson · Ford v. Donahue · Dillingham v. Schmidt · 183 Mo. App. 677 - Horton v. Troll · Ezell v. Mobley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the status of heirship or non-heirship, whether dependent on matters of legal or equitable cognizance, becomes material in the probate of a will or in any proceedings incident thereto, it is a 'matter of probate' within the term as used in the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCutchen v. Jordan“shall be tried and determined in the manner now provided for the hearing and determination of heirship in an estate in process of settlement in the county court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCutchen v. Jordan“necessarily [implied that it has] jurisdiction * * * to determine whether capacity to contest exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCutchen v. Jordan
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.