Collins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
May 1972
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rector, Etc. v. . Teed · Cole v. Cole · Gibson v. Rouse · Riffe v. Walton · Hardin's Administrators v. Hardin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While there are authorities to the contrary, notably in Kentucky and Alabama as cited in the brief, the great weight of authority is to the effect that an agreement by a legatee, under a will to pay money to an heir at law of the testator for forbearance of his right to contest the will, rests upon a valid consideration and is valid, and it is immaterial whether or not there were valid grounds for the contest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Reese
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.