Magee v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1961 · most notably Delaware County Trust Co. v. Hanby (1933), Mason's Administrator v. Mason's Guardian (1931)
25 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 In re the Estate of Nelson · In re the Estate of Smith · 117 Ohio St. 87 - Palmer v. Mitchell · Mason v. Baily · Burris v. Burgett
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if Wilbert White [the intestate illegitimate] had himself left a will giving all of his estate to the heirs of his mother, thereby adopting the law of descent as the expression of his own testamentary wish, the heirs of his mother whom the law would regard as having been intended by him would be those persons answering that description at the time of his death when the will came into operation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.