Hursh v. Edgerly’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Matter of Estate of Congdon (1981), In Re Estate of Murphy (1964)
28 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 In Re Estate of Forsythe · In re the Estate of Jernberg · Church of St. Vincent De Paul v. Brannan · Woodville v. Morrill · State v. Nelson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the nature, situation, and extent of his property and the claims of others on his bounty or his remembrance, and he [is] able to hold these things in his mind long enough to form a rational judgment concerning them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * [t]he verdict is worded quite differently from the finding and it is evident that the court intended to and did make its own finding * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no basis for questioning the sufficiency of the evidence on appeal where such evidence justifies a finding either way.”
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.