Horton v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2011
6 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 McIntyre v. McIntyre · Lyons v. Bloodworth · King v. Bennett · Hill v. Cochran · Woods v. Giedd
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“OCGA § [53-4-46] allows the admission to probate of copies of wills clearly proven to be such by the evidence [and] subject in every case to the presumption . . . that the will was revoked by the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tudor v. Bradford“Georgia's statutory scheme [recognizes] that an individual has only one will, no matter how many copies [are made].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tudor v. Bradford
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.