Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Mann v. Boatright (2007), In Re the Estate of Geier (2012)
27 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 Harding Glass Co. v. Jones · Stillings v. Davis · Matter of Estate of Newalla · People ex rel. E.A. · Estate of Burford v. Burford
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n order of the probate court is final if it ends the particular action in which it is entered and leaves nothing further for the court pronouncing it to do in order to completely determine the rights of the parties as to that proceeding.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“appellate courts may not review interlocutory orders without specific authorization by statute or rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Onee a petition is filed, it defines a proceeding. Further pleadings relating to the same subject matter, whether labeled motions or petitions, are part of the same proceeding. When the subject matter of two petitions overlap, it would generally be appropriate to consider both petitions as belonging to the same proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.