Moore v. Samuelson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1968
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 Markham v. Waterman · Lewis v. Lewis · Ernst v. Foster · Nolan v. Otney · Holt v. Wilson
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.
““No lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall pass to any devisee in a will who shall know of the existence thereof, and have the same in his power and control for the term' of three years, unless within that time he shall cause the same to be offered for or admitted to probate; and by such neglect the estate devised to such devisee shall descend to the heirs of the testator.” (R. S. 22-233.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wohlfort v. Wohlfort““ ‘The wife, having nothing on which the will could operate, is held to be a mere cipher'in the transaction.’ ””
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.