Ades v. Norins’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2018
16 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 Johnston v. Willis · Emmert v. Stouffer · Hamill v. Hamill · Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Devilbiss · Pegg v. Warford
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as prescribed by the statute is neither that of an appellate nor strictly speaking that of a court of original jurisdiction, but rather that of a tribunal ancillary to the orphans’ court, whose aid is invoked for the single purpose of determining issues of fact submitted to it by the orphans’ court for its guidance in dealing with some matter before it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[cjertainly no foresight is required to see that if the appellees were required to attack first the 1944 will and were successful, the appellant would offer the 1942 will for probate and the -appellees would then attack it on the same grounds as had overcome the 1944 will.... A caveat may be filed to a will either before or after it is exhibited to the Register of Wills or the court for probate. [I]t was within the power of the Orphans’ Court and appropriate, for it to consider the validity of both wills at the same time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“law confides in the [o]rphans' [c]ourt power to determine whether or not a will should be admitted to probate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shealer v. Straka
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.