Ashley v. Usher’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2005
22 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 Joske v. Irvine · McElroy v. Phink, Administrator · Brackenridge v. Roberts and McIntyre · Brackenridge v. Roberts · 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 22 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 ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No will in writing, and no clause thereof or device therein, shall be revoked, except by a subsequent will, codicil, or declaration in writing, executed with like formalities, or by the testator destroying or canceling the same, or causing it to be done in his presence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. Park“If two or more inconsistent wills are shown to exist and it is impossible to show by evidence which of them was executed last, no effect can be given to any of such wills.”
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.