Scott v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1996
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In onr opinion, the purpose of Section 4859, or that part to which we refer, was to enjoin upon appellants the duty of bringing- before the court while the proceedings were pending therein and before a trial was had, all persons who would have been interested in the testatrix’s estate, had there been no will. This was required to avoid vexatious litigation in regard to the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]ur opinion is that the Civil Code controls, as the statute is silent upon the subject.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. West v. Goldstein
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.