Gooch v. Gooch’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2009
14 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 In Re Estate of Plumel · Succession of Robertson · Noyes v. Gerard · Hatcher v. Hatcher · Stewart v. Mulholland
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is nothing that requires less formality than the body of a will or testament. If it be duly signed, attested and published, it may assume almost any form, provided it be intended by the party to take effect after his death. ... Nor is it necessary that the testator should intend to perform or be aware that he has performed a testamentary act. ... It is, therefore, well settled that the form of a paper does not affect its title to probate, provided it be the intention of the deceased that it should operate after his death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shakeel v. Khanam“My will is made in favor of my wife, Loulie M. Gooch . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berry v. Trible
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.