103 W. Va. 124 - Maxwell v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1982
7 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 Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · Aldrich v. Aldrich · Johnson v. Brown · Nutter v. Sydenstricker · Hoppe v. Byers
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the law sanctions them, it leaves them dependent on the opinion of witnesses as to whether the will is wholly in the handwriting of the testator, and where there is evidence on both sides of this issue, it would appear that declarations of a testator tending to either strengthen or weaken the probability that the instrument is in his handwriting ought to be received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Lewis“We therefore hold that in connection with the testimony of witnesses as to the handwriting of the document, evidence is admissible of [the decedent's] declared feelings toward both the proponent and the contestants, as well as evidence of a state of affairs which would tend to render it probable or improbable that the paper is valid.”
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.