De Mattos v. McGovern’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Monarco v. Lo Greco (1950), 384 So. 2d 171 - Allen v. Estate of Dutton (1980)
47 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 Zellner v. Wassman · Morrison v. Land · Estate of Rolls · Magniac v. Thomson · Wolf v. Donahue
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agreement not to revoke a will already made is, in effect, the same as an agreement to make a will, and must also be in writing”
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.