Logan v. Thomason’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Chandler v. Welborn (1956), Interfirst Bank-Houston, N.A. v. Quintana Petroleum Corp. (1985)
3 federal appellate · 96 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 Dodd v. . Anderson · Abrams v. Ross' Estate · 57 Tex. Civ. App. 646 - St. Mary's Orphan Asylum v. Masterson · Pena Y Vidaurri's Estate v. Bruni · Howley v. Sweeney
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the interest [of an interested person] must be a pecuniary one, held by the party either as an individual or in a representative capacity, which will be affected by the probate or defeat of the will. An interest resting on sentiment or sympathy, or any basis other than gain or loss of money ... is insufficient. Thus the burden is on every person ... offering [a will] for probate, to ... prove ... some legally ascertained pecuniary interest, real or prospective, absolute or contingent, which will be impaired or benefited, or in some manner materially affected.... [Emphasis ours.]”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a devisee or legatee, other than a lineal descendant, dies during the lifetime of the testator, the gift to him fails or lapses unless the testator prevents it by a provision in his will for the substitution of some other recipient. That is, if the will does not provide for substitution the devise or bequest fails where the deceased devisee or legatee is not a descendant of the testator, or where, being a descendant, he himself was not survived by children or descendants who survive the testator. Bomar v. Carstairs, 124 Tex. 492 , 79 S.W.2d 841 ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swearingen v. Giles“Any person interested in an estate may, at any time before any issue in any proceeding is decided upon by the court, file opposition thereto in writing and shall be entitled to process for witnesses and evidence, and to be heard upon such opposition, as in other suits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dickson v. Simpson
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.