Flynn v. Vanderslice’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1954
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 Taylor v. Campbell · Amos v. Johnston · State Ex Rel. Morrell v. Worten · Moning Dry Goods Co. v. Wiseman · Ward v. Board of County Commissioners
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the county court, having jurisdiction of the probate of a will, admits such will to probate, and such order and judgment become final, it cannot be attacked collaterally in the district court in a suit in ejectment brought by the heirs to dispossess the devisees under the will of real estate devised to them by the terms of such will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dryden v. Burkhart““The remedies provided by statute to vacate or modify a judgment or order of a district court of this state are exclusive of relief by a direct suit in equity, unless there are reasons shown that the statutory law is inadequate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burford v. Kephart
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.