Usher v. Gwynn’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1981
10 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 Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis · Cartwright v. Canode · McElroy v. Phink, Administrator · Brackenridge v. Roberts and McIntyre · May v. Brown
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘no.’ “ANSWER Yes “SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 2: Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that on or about January 24, 1962, Arthur Turner executed the instrument testified to by L. J. Turner and Jack Glenn Crawford in the presence of Jack Glenn Crawford and H. H. Wellborn intending same to be and constitute his last will and intending same to revoke all former wills? “Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’ “ANSWER: Yes ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Turner““Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Exhibit P-1 (the will in question) had not been revoked by Howard S. Cunningham at the time of his death?” (Issue No. 3).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ashley v. Usher
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.