Eckert v. Givan’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2004
8 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 Harding's Admr. v. Harding's Exr. · Egbert v. Egbert · Rogers v. Leahy · Frank's Administrator v. Bates · Erdman v. Louisville Trust Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ella Hiller qualified as the executrix under the will of her deceased husband. She had the right of electing either to take under the will or of renouncing the will and taking under the law of descent and distribution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harlow v. Harlow
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.