Shaw v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably In Re Estate of Shirk (1960), Brent v. McDonald (1956)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Foss v. Wiles · Clutter v. Hill · Burns v. Drake · Yeager v. Yeager · Dixon v. Fluker
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A marriage contract, assuming it cuts off all rights of an heir, the decedent’s widow, to inheritance, to a widow’s allowance and to homestead rights, and assuming it grants the entire estate to another heir, the decedent’s daughter, takes nothing out of the estate which would otherwise be distributed to the other heir, the widow. It only determines which one of the heirs shall receive the assets of the estate and does not constitute a claim or demand against decedent’s estate which must be asserted by the daughter within the period of the nonclaim statute.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The petition of an executor or an administrator for a final settlement and accounting, and a determination of the persons entitled to the estate of a decedent, shall, in addition to other requirements contain: ... (2) the names, residences, and addresses of the heirs, devisees, and legatees; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCormick v. Maddy
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.