Reed v. Norman’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1982
12 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 Greenfield v. McIntyre · Beall v. Beall · Gornto v. Wilson · Crummey v. Bentley · Rountree v. Gaulden
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When a man dies intestate, leaving a widow and children, the title to his realty vests in the latter, subject only to the former’s right to take a child’s part or have dower assigned therein; and unless it affirmatively appears that, within the time prescribed by law, she elected to take a child’s part, no presumption will arise that.she ever had any vested estate in fee in such realty. Snipes v. Parker, 98 Ga. 522 ( 22 SE 580 ); Hanvy v. Moore, 140 Ga. 691 ( 79 SE 772 ).’ Heard v. Kenney, 146 Ga. 719 ( 92 SE 205 ); Harris v. McDonald, 152 Ga. 18 ( 108 SE 448 ); Bird v. Dyke, 158 Ga. 81, 84 ( 122 SE 595 ).” Darnell v. Williams, 171 Ga. 651 (2) ( 156 SE 584 ). "While it must affirmatively appear that the widow elected to take a child’s part within the time prescribed by law, it is not necessary that her election be evidenced by a writing, duly signed, filed, and recorded in the office of the ordinary. This is one method of proving the fact of her election. Nor is it necessary to show her election by some declaration made within the time prescribed by law. Such declaration is one method of proving her election. The fact of election may be shown by circumstances establishing the same, as well as by direct evidence, such as a writing, or express declaration evincing such election. Sewell v. Smith, 54 Ga. 567 ; Brown v. Cantrell, 62 Ga. 257 ; Rountree v. Gaulden, 128 Ga. 737 ( 58 SE 346 ).’ Reed v. Norman, 157 Ga. 183 (3a) ( 121 SE 310 ).” Helmly v. Savannah Bank & Trust Co., 228”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Payton v. Johnson
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.