McCormick v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 1983 · most notably Dahmer v. Wensler (1932), In Re the Probate of the Alleged Will of Holibaugh (1955)
41 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 Pontius v. Conrad · Steinhagen v. Trull · Rawson v. Rawson · Ward v. Caverly · Liesman v. Liesman
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellant can take nothing under the statute of descent because its provisions apply only to intestate estates. . . . She takes under the will and the statute is material only because the will gives to her the portion of the estate to which the statute would entitle her if the testator had died intestate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A will, in legal contemplation, takes effect at the time of the death of the testator and is to be considered as if it bore date as of that time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frost v. Davis
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.