Plotts' Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably Ash Will (1944), Quein Will (1948)
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 Keen's Estate · Commonwealth v. Haines · Commonwealth v. McCloskey · Messner v. Elliott · Derr v. Greenawalt
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such case, it is sufficient for the proponents in the first instance to offer the register’s record of probate, including the will; thereupon, the burden of proof shifts to the contestants. See 1 Rhone Orphans’ Court Practice (3rd ed.), page 737; 28 R. C. L. 145. ‘Until a prima facie case against a will has been made out by the contestant they (the proponents) may rest upon the proof before the register, whose decree admitting the will to probate stands until duly reversed’: Whitaker’s Est., 10 W. N.C. 139, opinion by Judge Penrose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Neill's Estate
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.