Stetson v. Stetson’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1980
19 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 Scofield v. Olcott · Pickens v. Davis · Taylor v. Pegram · Cheever v. North · Barksdale v. Hopkins
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.
““In Texas, also, where the doctrine seems to prevail that the destruction of a duly executed will, containing an express revocation of a former will, does not have the effect of reviving the former will, the statute provides that a will may be revoked ‘by subsequent will, codicil or declaration in writing executed with like formalities,’ ” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It cannot be presumed that the destruction has taken place by any other person without his [testator's] knowledge or authority, for that would be presuming a crime.”
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.