Cunningham v. Hallyburton’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1970
10 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 Jackson v. . Jackson · Robinson v. Brewster · Noble v. Tipton · Calkins v. Calkins · In re the Last Will of Guilfoyle
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . All wills, testaments and codicils . . . shall be reduced to writing, and signed by the testator or testatrix, or by some person in his or her presence, and by his or her direction, and attested in the presence of the testator or testatrix, by two or more credible witnesses, . . . . ” Ill Rev. Stat. 1939, chap. 148, § 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““I want Louise to have the home and all that is in it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.