Waters v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably The Berry Will Case (1901), Cooley v. State (2005)
30 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The onus was upon the defendants [caveatees] to prove the due execution of the will, and for that purpose it was necessary for them first to call the subscribing witnesses, to testify as to the fact of the execution of the paper, and the mental capacity of the testator at that time . . . 35 Md. at 537 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It ought to appear that the witness had an opportunity of forming a rational opinion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Collins
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.