Duel v. Duel’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1989
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 Young v. Regents of University of Kansas · Alter v. Johnson · Ayers v. Board of Commissioners · Tresner v. Rees · Dudley v. Reynolds
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.
““Eliminating language inapplicable to our factual situation the section simply reads: ‘When a petition, except a petition to grant letters of administration, shall be filed in the probate court, any interested party may request the transfer of such matter to the district court.” (p. 695.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A primary rule for the construction of a statute is to find the legislative intent from its language, and where the language used is plain and unambiguous and also appropriate to an obvious purpose the court should follow the intent as expressed by the words used. [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a petition shall be filed in the probate court, (1) to admit a will to probate . . . any interested party may request the transfer of such matter to the district 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.