Barnes v. Viering’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2001
2 district · 16 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 Hatheway v. Smith · Jacobs v. Button · Utley v. Nolan · Whitehill v. Halbing · Beardsley v. Merry
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] will is more than a document executed in compliance with the statutory formalities required for testamentary disposition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he will must contain language which in and of itself expresses the testamentary gift intended.”
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.