Stark v. Stark’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2004
2 federal appellate · 18 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 15 Tex. Civ. App. 597 - Stringfellow v. Early · Cartwright v. Cartwright · Arendt v. Arendt · Dudgeon v. Dudgeon
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The question whether or not an offered instrument is testamentary in form or substance so as to be admitted to probate is one of law for the court to determine from the face of the offered instrument.’ But this and all other cases are to the effect that there is no will unless there exists the ‘animus testandi,’ which phrase is defined as the intention to make a will, and the existence of this intention is not a matter of inference, but must be expressed so that no mistake be made as to the existence of that intention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. Petty
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.