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← 239 Ala. 671 - Caverno v. Webb

Caverno v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis

1940

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
3
states following
January 2016
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Love v. Rennie (1950), In Re Towndrow's Will (1943)

2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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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 Kaplan v. Coleman · Wachter v. Davis · Ex Parte Walter · Hall's Heirs v. Hall · Knox v. Paull

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A will is ineffective until duly probated. No court can take notice of or give effect to a will until probated. . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “decree rendered in the contest proceedings”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.