Keith v. Culp’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1992
21 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 Miller, Et Vir v. Carr · 82 So. 2d 870 - First Atlantic National Bank v. Cobbett · Berger v. Jackson · Exchange Nat. Bank of Tampa v. Bryan · McDowell v. Ritter
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Mutual wills are ambulatory like other wills, i.e., revocability is an essential element of all wills. Thus it is not the wills, which are made in pursuance of a contract, that are irrevocable, but the contract upon which they are made that stands and may be enforced depending of course upon the attendant circumstances. And this is true even though there is a covenant not to revoke."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(1) No agreement to make a will of real or personal property or to give a legacy or make a devise shall be binding or enforceable unless such agreement is in writing signed in the presence of two subscribing witnesses by the person whose executor or administrator is sought to be charged. "(2) This section shall apply to agreements made on, after or prior to January 1, 1958."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person may make a valid contract to leave his property at his death by will or otherwise in a particular way, and such a contract will be enforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.