120 W. Va. 722 - Ebert v. Ebert’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1995
7 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 Kerr v. Lunsford · Louis Beyer v. Caroline Le Fevre · Councill v. Mayhew · Ketterman v. Dry Fork Railroad Co. · Burney v. Torrey
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where legal capacity is shown, and the testator acts freely, the validity of the will cannot be impeached, however unreasonable, imprudent, or unaccountable it may seem to the jury or to others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ritz v. Kingdon
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.