Maynard v. Keene’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1982
15 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 Cheever v. North · Lawyer v. Smith · In Matter of the Estate of Lambie v. McMillan (Mich. 10-2-1893) · Harring v. Allen · Ewing v. McIntyre
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is without question the rule of law that, where a will cannot be found at the death of the testator upon proper search being- made, and especially where the will is not traced out of the possession of the testator, it is to be presumed that it was destroyed by him animo revocandi.’ In re Keene’s Estate, 189 Mich. 97, 102 (Ann. Cas. 1918 E, 367). This presumption of revocation may be met by proof of declarations of the testator indicating the will was still in force.” In re Estate of Taylor, 271 Mich. 404 .”
2 later decisions 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.