Stone v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1955
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 In Re the Estate of Manchester · Adams v. Field · In Re the Probate of the Will of Field · Meads v. Earle · In Re the Probate of a Paper Alleged to Be the Last Will and Testament of Booth
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.
““ * * * for being' written by himself, and his Name'in -the Will, it is' a sufficient Signing within the Statute, which does not appoint where the Will shall be signed, in the Top, Bottom, or Margin, and therefore a Signing in any Part is sufficient: * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Plemons v. Tarpey
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.