McGehee v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1989
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Henderson v. Henderson · Fowlkes v. Clay · Montgomery v. Wilson · Schowalter v. Schowalter · Fillmore v. Yarbrough
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.
““ *■ * * The testator’s intention, being the law of the instrument, must be gathered from the whole instrument, and all of its parts, after taking due consideration of the manifest scheme of the testator to ascertain its spirit rather than its letter. * * *” ( 248 Ala. 178 , 26 So.2d 864 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brittain v. Ingram“is a broad and comprehensive term and has a variable and indefinite meaning, and the appellants contend that the testator, by the use of the word”
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.