Jeffcoat v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2000
6 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 Brown v. State · Carpenter v. Smith · Barnes v. Cooper, Administrator · 3 Smith & H. 253 - Garrett v. Garrett · Dooley v. Penland
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Right of election personal to surviving spouse. — The right of election of the surviving spouse is personal. It is not transferable and does not survive the surviving spouse. The guardian of the estate of an incompetent surviving spouse may, when authorized by the court having-jurisdiction over the estate of the ward, elect to take against the will in the ward’s behalf.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lamb v. Ford
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.