Martin v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2003
12 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
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 3901 (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 3931 (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act)
Relies on Boone v. Lightner · Allen v. Scruggs · Catts v. Phillips · Buettner Bros. v. Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church · Jordan v. Ringstaff
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Except in the cases provided in article 1 of this chapter, a will in writing can only be revoked by burning, tearing, cancelling or obliterating the same, with the intention of revoking it, by the testator himself, or by some person in his presence, and by his direction, or by some other will in writing, or some other writing subscribed by the testator, and attested as prescribed in section 43-1-30 . When any will is burned, torn, cancelled or obliterated by any person other than the testator, his direction, and consent thereto and the fact of such burning, cancelling, tearing or obliteration must be proved by at least two witnesses."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“lost will may be established by the testimony of a single witness, who read it, or heard it read, and remembers its contents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Griggs
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.