Green v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1987
8 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 Ash v. Morgan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Execution. The execution of a will ... must be by the signature of the testator and of at least two (2) witnesses as follows: a. The testator shall declare to the attesting witnesses that the instrument is his will and either ... (3) Sign by mark, his name being written near it and witnessed by a person who writes his own name as witness to the signature ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is essential to due execution of a will, that it be signed or subscribed by the number of witnesses required by the law governing the particular will being made, and subscription by fewer renders the transaction a nullity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shamoon v. Tombridge“We held sub-section (3) and (5) of this statute to be mandatory in requiring a minimum of three subscribing witnesses to make the will in question valid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shamoon v. Tombridge
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.