Knauff v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Gonzalez v. Satrustegui (1994), In Re the Estate of Manchester (1917)
33 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 Lane v. Walker · Albright v. North · Warwick v. Warwick · Succession of Armant · In re Estate of Rand
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the law governing wills it is elementary that the right to make a testamentary disposition of one's property is purely of statutory creation, and is available only on compliance with the requirements of the statute.... The omission of any of the requirements of the statute will not be overlooked on the ground that it is beyond question that the paper was executed by the decedent as his will.... `The courts must consider that the legislature, ... has thought it best, and has therefore determined, to run the risk of frustrating the intentions sometimes, in preference to the risk of giving effect to or facilitating the formation of spurious wills....'" In re Estate of Tyrrell, 17 Ariz. 418, 422-23 , 153 P. 767, 768 (1915).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When a will is proved, every exertion of the court is directed to giving effect to the wishes of the testator therein expressed, but in the proving of the instrument the sole consideration before the court is whether or not the legislative mandates have been complied with. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . Where a paper is propounded as a holographic will the essential thing is that the paper express a testamentary disposition of property and be wholly written and signed by the testator, . . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Morrison
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.