Ross Will’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1965 · most notably Williams v. McCarroll (1953), Quein Will (1948)
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 Null's Estate · McCown v. Fraser · Phillips' Estate · Lawrence's Estate · Tetlow'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.
““From what we have said it should be evident that the contestant failed to make out a prima facie case. ... It is only where a contestant’s proofs raise a substantial dispute as to a material matter of fact, which is not overcome in the mind of the hearing judge by the quantum and character of the proofs adduced by the proponent, that the award of an issue is justified: Doster’s Estate, 271 Pa. 68, 72 , 113 A. 831 ; Tetlow’s Estate, 269 Pa. 486, 494 , 112 A. 758 ; Phillips’ Estate, 244 Pa. 35, 42 , 90 A. 457 .””
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.