Swaffar v. Swaffar’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably In Re Adoption of K.F.H. (1993), Lagios v. Goldman (2016)
33 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 Hilburn v. First State Bank of Springdale · Poe v. Case · Morris v. Dooley · Minetree v. Minetree · Roberts v. Swim
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Executor was operating well within his authority to contest the pretermitted status of a petitioner who did not qualify. Indeed, he was obligated to do so as the representative of those provided for in the will ... In short, the [executor] had standing to challenge [the pretermitted heir claim] in his capacity as executor, which was a challenge he was required to make to protect the decedent’s distributees mentioned in his will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.