Bailey v. Kerns’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2017
19 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 Quesenberry v. Funk · Poindexter v. Jones · Grimes v. Crouch · Spinks v. Rice · Baliles v. Miller
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the face of the instrument contains some evidence of testamentary CT Page 1106 intent, extrinsic evidence may be admitted to determine whether the instrument is testamentary in nature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hether the face of an instrument contains evidence of testamentary intent is a matter of law to be decided by the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the trial court determines that there is no evidence of testamentary intent within the four corners of the instrument, as a matter of law, that instrument is not a valid will.”
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.