Riley v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2015
19 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 Thomason v. Odum · Armstrong's Ex'r v. Armstrong's Heirs · Wright v. Bolling
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To hold that these facts amounted to a valid execution and attestation of the will, would certainly weaken the safeguards against frauds and forgeries, which it was the purpose of the statute to provide. It is manifest that the signatures of the witnesses, written by themselves, furnish a reliable foundation for those legal presumptions in favor of the due execution of a will, which arise upon proof of the handwriting of the witnesses, when they are dead or out of the State. We think we consult sound public policy in deciding, that one of the subscribing witnesses to a will cannot sign the name of another who is himself well able to write, and who does not physically participate in the act of signing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elston v. Price
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.