Tyson v. Utterback’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Kramer Service, Inc. v. Wilkins (1939), In Re Rowland's Estate (1945)
31 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 Barnewall v. Murrell · Bolton v. Bolton · Helm v. Sheeks · Maxwell v. Lake · Hall's Heirs v. Hall's Executors
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These are the functions of attestation, namely, that the testator may know that the paper that is being attested is the exact paper which he signed, and that the witnesses may know that the paper which they are attesting is the exact paper which the testator signed or expressly directed to be signed for him in addition to which the attestation includes the further function that the witnesses shall be reasonably satisfied that the testator is of sound and disposing mind and memory, and capable of executing a will. (Citing a number of cases.) ” 154 Miss. 392 , 122 So. 499 , 63 A. L. R. 1193.”
2 later decisions 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.