Nunn v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1985
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 Eversole v. Eversole · Hill v. Tucker · Westerfield-Bonte Co. v. Burnett · Jones v. Jones' Executors · Boyd' Exor. v. Commonwealth
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.
““There is a wide difference between administrators and executors, and, in view of the well-settled principle that the testator’s wishes should be heeded, an executor deserves greater consideration when his right to qualify is contested. A testator has the right to appoint any one whom he deems proper as executor of his will, and his solemn selection is not lightly to be disregarded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Nunn
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.