McGrew v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1990
21 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 Hinson v. Hinson · In Re Price's Estate · 21 Tex. Civ. App. 361 - Lawson, Guardian v. Estate of Dawson · Caywood v. Caywood
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] will ... may, at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date during the lifetime of the testator and the witnesses, be made self-proved, and the testimony of the witnesses in the probate thereof may be made unnecessary, by the affidavits of the testator and the attesting witnesses, made before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds of conveyance and to administer oaths under the laws of this State.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A testamentary document to be self-proved, must first be a will. Many reasons support that rule as the true legislative purpose. In this case, the self-proving affidavit states that the witnesses’ ‘names are subscribed to the annexed or foregoing instrument * * * ’ and that ‘each witness stated further that they did sign the same as witnesses. * * * ’ In fact, the names of the witnesses are not so subscribed to the will. The affidavits identify as the will a document which is inconsistent with the one offered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cherry v. Reed
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.