Reed v. Shipp’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Bardin v. Jones (1979), Nottage v. Jones (1980)
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 Ex Parte Rosenblum · Lewis v. Martin · Smith v. Moore · Dunlap v. Robinson · Locke v. Sparks
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.
“'[is] active in and about the execution and preparation of said will, such as the initiation of the proceedings for the preparation of the will, or participation in such preparation, employing the draftsman, selecting the witness, excluding persons from the testat[or] at or about the time of the execution of the will, concealing the making of the will after it was made, and the like ....'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. McGee · McGimsey v. Gray“"* * * that all that is needed to submit the case to a jury is a mere scintilla from which the jury can infer some undue activity in the procurement or execution of the will, and this can be proved by circumstantial evidence. Smith v. Moore , 278 Ala. 173 , 176 So.2d 868 (1965).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[A]fter due proof and hearing had according to the laws of this state, the Court is satisfied and is of the opinion that said instruments are the genuine Last Will and Testament and Codicil thereto of said deceased, and that such instruments should be probated as the Last Will and Testament of said deceased. It is, therefore, “ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the Court that said instruments be duly admitted to probate as the Last Will and Testament of Mrs. Jessie M. Maynor, deceased, and ordered to be recorded together with the proof thereof and all other papers on file relating to this proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Meadows
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.