Renfrow v. McCain’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1974
20 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 Rostrup v. Succession of Spicer · Heirs of Hennessey v. Woulfe · Landry v. Tomatis · Succession of Cauvien · Succession of Block
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■ “ * * * And it is the well-settled jurisprudence of this state that the mere fact that a nuncupative will by public act contains words which were not dictated by the testator will not affect the validity, when it is shown that the notary lucidly expressed the testator’s intentions, and that he faithfully recorded those intentions in the will.” ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.