Ross v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1982
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 Lane v. Walker · Noyes v. Gerard · 15 N.J. Eq. 290 - Mundy v. Mundy · Quale v. White · Williams v. Malm
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Not a single surrounding or accompanying fact or circumstance was proven from which we could infer that this witness was mistaken, and that, in some manner, there was published to this witness the fact that the instrument he was subscribing as a witness was a will; and there was certainly no such fact or circumstance proven as would permit us to infer that Mrs. Taylor, in any manner by the word or act of herself or any other person, published to this witness the all important fact that she knew the instrument to purport to be her will. The purpose of this statutory provision is clear; it is to require proof, not only that a testator executes the writing, but, what is even far more important, that he understands the nature of the same.””
2 later decisions 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.