Shane v. Wooley’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2018
2 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Higgins v. Carlton · Bolton v. Bolton · Gross v. Burneston · Brengle v. Tucker · In Re the Last Will & Testament of Baldwin
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While there is no provision of the statute of this state which requires, in terms, that the attestation clause and the signatures of the witnesses shall be at the end of the will, or at any particular place of the will, as in some of the states of the Union, the weight of authority, however, appears to be that the witnesses must sign, either upon the same sheet as the signature of the testator, or on some sheet physically connected with it, to constitute a valid will. (Italics supplied.) * ' * * * * * “Under the facts shown by the record in the present case, the attestation or subscription by the witnesses was not on the same sheet of paper as that which contained the testatrix’s own signature, nor was it upon a paper physically connected with that sheet.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.