Cook v. Jeffett’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1980
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · In Re the Probate of the Will of Hopkins · Eagle v. Peterson · Eschbach v. Collins · Bigelow v. Gillott
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Cook we said: . . . The rule supported by the weight of authority is, as is stated in the text of Ruling Case Law, supra that ‘when an attempt has been made by interlineation or obliteration to make a different disposition of the estate, the attempt will be abortive if made without the attestation required by law, and the will as originally drawn will be given effect.’ [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodson v. Walton“The cause must, on account of the error in giving the instruction quoted above, be reversed and remanded for a new trial. If the will of 1920 is sustained, it constitutes a revocation of the former will, and that would end the controversy. In view, however, of another trial, it becomes necessary to discuss the effect of the alleged erasures in the will of 1917. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodson v. Walton“When parts of a will have been effectively erased by a testator they are no more a part of such will than if they had never been written therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodson v. Walton
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.