Moon v. Norvell’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2015
17 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 De Caccia v. Barrington · Triplett v. Trotter
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the testamentary intention may be determined from other parts of the will, the formal expression of such intention is not essential and is frequently omitted when testamentary instruments are prepared by unskilled people.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“wholly in the handwriting of the testator,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berry v. Trible
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.