Ewing v. McIntyre’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1948
18 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 Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · McDonald v. McDonald · In Re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Kennedy · Lane v. Moore · In re Page
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But counsel for contestants contend that the declarations of the testator were not competent evidence to rebut the presumption of revocation, and that the great weight of current authority is to that effect [citing numerous cases]. “We do not deem it necessary to enter upon a discussion of the authorities to determine on which side the weight of authority lies, since the rule has been established in this State against contestants’ contention. Lawyer v. Smith, 8 Mich. 412 [ 77 Am. Dec. 460 ]; Harring v. Allen, 25 Mich. 505 ; In re Hope, 48 Mich. 518 [ 12 N. W. 682 ]; In re Lambie’s Estate, 97 Mich. 50 [ 56 N. W. 223 ]; Cheever v. North, 106 Mich. 390 [ 64 N. W. 455 ], 37 L. R. A. 561 [ 58 Am. St. Rep. 499 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maynard v. Keene““ The sole question, therefore, under the charge, is whether there was any evidence in the casé legitimately tending to overcome the prima facie presumption of revocation arising from the nonproduction of the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ewing v. Lamphere
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.