Barnes v. Leierer’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1972
16 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 Johnson v. Briggs · Lampe v. Wille · Smith v. Holden · Reed v. Hendrix's · Crane v. Trent
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every will . . . shall be in writing, and signed at the end thereof by the party making the same . . . and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of such party by two or more competent witnesses, who saw the testator subscribe or heard him acknowledge the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Humphrey v. Wallace
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.