Cheever v. North’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1943 · most notably Williams v. Miles (1903), Kern v. Kern (1900)
29 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Pickens v. Davis · Caeman v. Van Harke · James v. Marvin · Scott v. Fink · Peck's Appeal from Probate
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is an irreconcilable conflict of authority upon the question of the effect of the destruction of a second or subsequent will upon an earlier one. The great weight of authority is to the effect that the execution of a subsequent will, containing an express clause revoking the former will, operates as a revocation at once, and that the former will thus revoked cannot be subsequently revived, except by republication, and is not renewed by a destruction of the later will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Danley v. Jefferson““In all cases that shall be contested, either in the probate court or in the circuit court, such court may award costs to either party, in its discretion, to be paid by the other, or to be paid out of the estate which is the subject of the controversy, as justice and equity shall require.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Quinn's Estate
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.