Doyle v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Swidler & Berlin v. United States (1998), State v. Manning (1971)
88 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 Goddard v. Gardner · Mulcahy v. Mulcahy · Rowland v. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad · 110 Ohio St. 105 - Collins v. Collins · Todd v. Munson
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless otherwise provided by statute, communications, by a client to the attorney who drafted his will, in respect to that document and transactions between them leading up to its execution are not privileged, after the client's death, in a suit between devisees under the will and heirs at law, or other parties who all claim under him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The principal reason is that the general rule is designed for the protection of the client, and it is deemed not for the interest of the testator, in a controversy between the parties all of whom claim under him, to have those declarations and transactions excluded which promote a proper fulfillment of his will”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] witness to a will, although attorney for the testator, is permitted to disclose everything which he knew concerning his attestation and the circumstances surrounding and leading up to it.”
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.