Stuart v. McWhorter’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1983
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 Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · Merrill v. Boal · Russell v. Tyler · Bohleber v. Rebstock · Atherton v. Gaslin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No will or codicil, or any part thereof, shall be revoked except: (4) by the person who made the will, or some other person in his presence and by his direction, cutting, tearing, burning, obliterating, cancelling or destroying the will or codicil, or the signature thereto, with the intent to revoke. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conley v. Brewer
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.