Davis v. Fogle’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1963
24 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Sewall v. Roberts · Humphries v. Davis · Paul v. Davis · Humphries v. Davis · Runkle v. Gates
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is held in Runkle v. Gates, 11 Ind. 95, that to revoke a will the requirements of the statute must be strictly pursued. It is manifestly true no act, thing, or deed will revoke a will once duly executed, unless it comes within the provisions of the statute providing for the revocation of wills. To hold that the adoption of a child revokes the will, it is necessary to interpolate into section 2560, after the words ‘legitimate issue,’ the words ‘or shall adopt a child’; or words to the same effect, for the words of the statute are plain and explicit; they are: ‘If after the making of the will the testator shall have born to him legitimate issue.’ It would be legislation, and enacting a statute to so construe it.” (Davis v. Fogle et al., 124 Ind. 41, 45 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dreyer v. Schrick
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.