McGregor v. McGregor’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 99 Ill. App. 3d 493 - Nemeth v. Banhalmi (1981), Price, Administrator v. Holmes (1967)
7 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Case of Broderick's Will · Edmund Gaines and Wife v. Beverly Chew Rich · Axe v. Wilson · Allen v. Lovell's Adm'x · Morton v. Petitt
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is little, if any, dispute among the authorities that a person who has wrongfully deprived' another of his just bequest under a will has perpetrated an actionable tort. (Citing cases.) However, the courts have ruled with almost equal unanimity that before the deprived legatee can seek relief in a tribunal other than the proper probate court, an attempt first must have been made to probate the will which is alleged to give rise to the claim, or that, in the alternative, it must be alleged and shown that such probate is impossible under the circumstances of the particular case. . . .” (pp. 849, 850.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is little, if any, dispute among the authorities that a person who has wrongfully deprived another of his just bequest under a will has perpetrated an actionable tort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.