Warmath v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2015
4 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 Hendrix v. Franklin State Bank · 1 Smith & H. 304 - Lillard v. Tolliver · Jones v. Witherspoon · Durell v. Martin · Bridges v. Agee
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion, a person who would not take any part of the estate of a decedent in case of intestacy, will not be permitted to contest a will upon the allegation that he was a beneficiary in a prior will which has been lost or destroyed, without at least commencing a suit in the Chancery Court to set up such lost or destroyed instrument. 279 S.W.2d at 258 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Overhouse
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.