Moyers v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2014
8 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 Triplett's v. Triplett · Thompson v. Royall
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No will or codicil or any part thereof, shall be revoked, unless under the preceding section, or by a subsequent will or codicil, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, executed in the manner in which a will is required to be executed, or by the testator, or some person in his presence and by his direction, cutting, tearing, burning, obliterating, canceling or destroying the same, or the signature thereto, with the intent to revoke.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bradshaw v. Bangley““The statute, Code, section 5233 (now § 64-59) provides the manner by which wills may be revoked. This must be followed in order that the revocation may be valid just as the provisions of the statute, Code, section 5229 (now § 64-51), must be complied with in order that a will may be valid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bradshaw v. Bangley
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.