Malone v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1943
1 district · 4 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 Hubbard v. Hubbard · Garnsey v. County Court · Kirkwood v. Washington County
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of a deceased person is presented for probate, it is the duty of the court to hear the witnesses as to its due execution, and, if they show ex parte the instrument offered to be the will of the deceased, it must be admitted to probate, and letters testamentary issued as a matter of course.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Person's Will
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.