In re Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2018
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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The learned judge who presided at the trial . . . should have directed the jury to answer the issue in favor of the caveators, or, in other words, ‘No,’ as there was no evidence, in a legal sense, that the paper-writing, which was propounded . . . was the will of George M. Bennett . ” 180 N.C. at 8, 103 S.E. at 918 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is that there may be no doubt as to the intention of the supposed testator”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Will of Allen
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.