Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably 759 So. 2d 411 - Alexander v. State (2000), Jones v. Driver (1940)
26 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 89 Cal. App. 238 - In Re Estate of Major · Russell v. Tyler · Caddell's Heirs v. Caddell's · Smith v. Smith · Johnson v. White
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We take it there will be no disputing the fact that the determination of whether an instrument is testamentary in character depends wholly upon the intention of the maker, and that, in the absence of a testamentary intent, there can never be a will.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the paper shows no more than an intention that the person intended to make a disposition of his property in the future as indicated in the paper, it is not sufficient,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mallory v. Mallory“"Until I can have my will written the following are my wishes in regard to my estate . . . ”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.