Devlin v. O'Reilly’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2011
21 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 In Re the Estate of Manchester · Estate of Bernard · In Re the Estate of McMahon · Shoults v. Williams · In Re Estate of Hurley
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I will state to you later what I would wish you to do with the balance ... I am tired writing Goodnight”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“San Francisco, August 15th, 1921--I Joseph Devlin ...”
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.