Collamore v. Learned’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1993
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.
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.
“`It is not competent, under the adoption law, for an adoption to be made for the purpose of operating simply as, and to take the place of, a last will and testament.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`It is not competent under the adoption law for a person in the senile age of life to adopt persons in the prime and vigor of life.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This motive is a perfectly proper one, and, if it were bad, it would not affect the validity of the decree”
1 later decision 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.