Tomb v. Bardo’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 1982 · most notably Harkrader v. Johnson (1947), Springer v. Schnack (1942)
6 federal appellate · 33 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 Mercantile Trust Co. v. Schloss · Zabel v. Stewart · Miller v. Miller · Myers v. Noble · Johnson v. Muller
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the election of the widow to take against the will the attempted life estate of the widow failed in its inception; that by reason of the failure of the life estate the remainders were accelerated . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomsen v. Thomsen““Complaint is made of the action of the court in taxing the costs to the residuary assets of the estate. Under the statute, G. S. 1935, 60-3706, this was a matter within the discretion of the trial court.””
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.