Fleming v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2009
8 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 Bohleber v. Rebstock · Burton v. Wylde · Martin v. Martin · Stetson v. Stetson · Hesterberg v. Clark
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any act of tearing of the paper on which the will is written, however slight, is an act of tearing within the meaning of this statute if done with intent to revoke the will, but it is likewise true that no act of tearing or cutting, unless it be with the intention to revoke the will, accomplishes such purpose. The intent with which the act is done governs. * * * The tearing or cutting of a portion of a will with an intent to revoke a part of it cannot amount to a revocation of the will in this State. Such is, at most, but an attempt to revoke a portion of the will, and the original will, if its contents can be determined, will be probated.””
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.