Balfour v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2010
20 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wills shall be admitted to probate, and letters testamentary or of administration shall be granted: “1. In the county where the deceased resided, if he had a domicile or fixed place of residence in the State. “2. If the deceased had no domicile or fixed place of residence in the State, but died in the State, then either in the county where his principal property was at the time of his death, or in the county where he died. * ⅜ *»”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Bearden · White v. Baker
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.