Major v. Kidd’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2005
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
Relies on Jackson v. Hardin · Gay v. Gillilant · Maddox v. Maddox · Benoist v. Murrin · Norton v. Paxton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law presumes that the testator was possessed of a sound and disposing mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fields v. Luck.“whether the writing produced be the will of the testator or not”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. Allison
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.