Bates v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2011
7 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 Wilson v. Bates · Wilson v. Bates
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no plausible reason for giving her father's share of the estates to her uncle, John C. Bates. * *. * The further I go into this matter, the more thoroughly I become convinced that the Legislature intended that ‘any person found guilty of murder should not inherit, either by will or otherwise, from the person killed, but should be considered as though he had preceded in death the person whom he killed.’ In the companion case we held that Robert J. Bates, by the acts of killing his parents, forfeited his right to inherit from either of them. The acts of killing took place immediately before his parents died. By these murderous acts[,] Robert J. Bates forfeited all right to inherit or receive property from his parents.... Robert J. Bates is to be considered as though he had preceded in death his parents whom he killed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newton v. Newton
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.