Albright v. North’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably In Re the Estate of Manchester (1917), Gardner v. Balboni (1991)
50 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 In Re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of Andrews · In Re the Probate of the Will of O'Neil · Lane v. Walker · Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul v. Kelly · Estate of Blake
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.
“The provision that the will must be subscribed at the end thereof requires the testator's name to be written at the termination of the testamentary provisions which he makes in the instrument. The 'will' at whose end the name is to be subscribed is not the sheet of paper or other material upon which these testamentary provisions are written, but it is the declaration which the testator has written thereon for such testamentary disposition, and the 'end thereof' is not the foot or physical end of the sheet of paper upon which the 'will' is written, but is the physical termination of the testamentary provisions which constitute the will. 'The act of authentication must take place at the termination of the testamentary disposition.' (McGuire v. Kerr, 2 Bradf. 244 .) 'To say that where the name is there is the end of the will is not to observe the statute. That requires that where the end of the will is there shall be the name. It is to make a new law to say that when we find the name there is the end of the will. The instrument offered is to be scanned to learn where is the end of it as a completed whole, and at the end thus found must the name of the testator be subscribed.' (Sisters of Charity v. Kelly, 67 N.Y. 409 ; Matter of O'Neil's Will, 91 N.Y. 522 ; Matter of Andrews's Will, 162 N.Y. 1 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Chase“The formalities which the legislature has prescribed for the execution of wills are to provide against false and fraudulent wills, and to afford means of determining their authenticity. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“subscribed at the end thereof by the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.