May v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably Gann v. Meek (1948), Ashley v. Usher (1964)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 McElroy v. Phink, Administrator · Brackenridge v. Roberts and McIntyre · Brackenridge v. Roberts · Brackenridge v. Roberts · Patton v. Cox
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No will in writing, and no clause thereof or device therein, shall be revoked, except by a subsequent will, codicil, or declaration in writing, executed with like formalities, or by the testator destroying or canceling the same, or causing it to be done in his presence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynolds v. Park“raised the issues whether Fanning executed a later will or declaration in writing executed with like formalities with the will, subsequent to the date of the (first) will * * * and, if so, whether the testator revoked the former will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ludwick v. Fowler“taken in its entirety, tends to show that Fanning made a later will and to this extent casts suspicion upon the genuineness of the [first] will as being the last will and testament of Fanning, such as it purported on its face to be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ludwick v. Fowler
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.