Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1957
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 McMurry v. Stanley · Eckford v. Knox
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.
““An adopted heir, upon the death of the adopting party, becomes entitled, if living, to an interest in all the property of which he may die intestate. . . . J. W. Evans having left a will at the time of his death, he did not die intestate, unless his act of adopting Jack Evans, under the statute, subsequent to the execution of the will, had the effect to revoke it. These statutes provide that an ‘after-born’ child shall have the effect to revoke the previously executed will, and in no way suggest that the adoption of a child or heir after the execution of a will shall have the effect to revoke it.” (Evans v. Evans, 186 S. W. 815, 816 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dreyer v. Schrick
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.