Estes v. Estes’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1983
9 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 Whitehead v. Kirk · Birchett v. Hundermark · Baker v. Baker's Estate · Sartor v. Sartor · Sullivan v. Jones
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are unable to see how the date of the month would become material except where a testator or testatrix does not attain his or her majority and the capacity to make a will until some time during the particular month of the year within which the same is executed, or except where the question is one as to which of two or more wills executed during the same month and year was the last one to be executed. (200 Miss, at 547-548, 27 So.2d at 856 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“March 1939 I give to my sister Caroline Wallace Estes everything I own (real and personal) without bond. [Signed] Mary E. Estes.”
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.