23 Tex. Civ. App. 676 - Dew v. Dew’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1959
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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person interested in any will which shall have been probated under the laws of this state may institute suit in the proper court to contest the validity thereof within four years after such will shall have been admitted to probate, and not afterwards,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sutton v. English
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.