Young v. McGuan’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1970
13 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 Heine v. First Trust Co. · Russell v. Hallett · McLeod v. Palmer · Neuhoff v. O'Reilly · McVeigh v. First Trust Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it clear from these authorities that those who claim to be heirs of Ellen Doyle through her father cannot be entitled, to more than one-half of her estate. . . . Who is an heir, or who are the heirs, of a decedent depends upon the law of the state or country. . . . So, we must of necessity turn to the statutes to see who is or may be an heir of a decedent. This we have considered hereinbefore and concluded the Young claimants cannot be prejudiced by the judgment of the court relating to that part of the estate which must be traced through the mother of Ellen Doyle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.