Fenton v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2005
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 Wikoff's Appeal · Hamlet v. Hamlet · Triplett's v. Triplett · Dinning v. Dinning · McElroy v. Rolston
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The abbreviation of “P.S.” and the writing appearing after the signature indicate, on the face of the instrument offered for probate, that they were written after the signature was made and there is nothing on the face of the paper which makes it manifest that the signature authenticated the words appearing after it... . [T]he name appearing on a holograph will is not to be considered a signature unless it appears to have been intended as such and then is only a signature as to so much of the paper as it was designed to authenticate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Wadlow“Changes or additions to a will are usually made by a codicil.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.