Coyne Will’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 1993 · most notably Kehr Will (1953), Baldwin Will (1947)
34 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 Maginn's Estate · Brown Estate · Covington Estate · Stinson's Estate · Swire's Estate
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.
““The Wills Act requires signing at the end. The purpose of the Act was to remove all possibility of fraud.””
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.