Doyle v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1936
9 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 Skinner v. Rasche · Caw v. . Robertson · Bruce v. Shuler · Vose v. Willard · 43 W. Va. 300 - Davis v. Davis
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... the penalty of losing his bequest, it seems to us, ought to be enforced against him only when his testimony is required to establish the will. . . .We are convinced that the statute was intended to mean what it says, when it says the bequest shall be avoided only if the will may not be otherwise proven.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Calvert v. Calvert
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.