Brooks v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1985 · most notably 380 So. 2d 792 - Stiles v. Brown (1980), Baldwin v. McClendon (1974)
30 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 Clark v. Hudson · Southern Electric Generating Co. v. Leibacher · Thompson v. State · Allen v. Scruggs · Shelby County v. Baker
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he did recall certain particular devises of real and personal property, and also recalled that the first paragraph of the will stated:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Griggs“proof of a lost instrument as a will is sufficient and the exact words need not be shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Griggs“I do hereby revoke all testamentary dispositions by me heretofore made.”
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.