Zaruba v. Schumaker’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2016
5 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 Mondragon v. Mondragon · Houston v. Cole · Dilworth v. Steves · Masterson v. Harris · Stout v. Oliveira
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) be in writing and signed by the testator in person or by another person for him by his direction and in his presence and (2) if not wholly in the testator's handwriting, be attested by two or more credible witnesses above the age of 14 years, who must subscribe their names thereto in their own handwriting and in the testator's presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Traylor“(1) . . . that the testator, at the time of executing the will, was at least eighteen years of age . . . and was of sound mind; and (2) . . . that the testator executed the will with the formalities and solemnities and under the circumstances required by law to make it a valid will; and (3) [t]hat such will was not revoked by the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Traylor“[A]ttestation of a will is the act of witnessing the performance of the statutory requirements to a valid execution of the will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Traylor
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.