Grimes v. Crouch’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. (1969), Poindexter v. Jones (1958)
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 Ferguson v. Ferguson · Redford v. Booker · Scholz v. Standard Accident Insurance · Rust v. Reid · Carr v. Effinger
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ever thing left to sister for life times.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is a settled rule in this country and in England that in determining whether the instrument propounded was intended to be testamentary, reference will be had to the surrounding circumstances, and the language will be construed in the light of those circumstances; and that if it shall appear under all the circumstances that the instrument was intended to be testamentary, the court will give effect to the intention, if it can be done consistently with the language of the instrument. But while the courts have gone far in construing almost any form of instrument to be a will, we have been unable to find a case in which a paper with nothing on its face to indicate that it was intended to be testamentary was held to be entitled to probate as a holograph will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. Kerns“2 Among other definitions is this, taken from the Century Dictionary:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.