Tonnele v. . Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably In Re the Probate of the Will of O'Neil (1883), In Re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Conway (1891)
31 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “If the map on file in the register’s office, or a reduced copy of it annexed, may be treated as a part of the instrument, and I think it may, * * * its contents must be incorporated and distributed in it to the extent of the several references made to it, at the places where made, and thus the contents of the p.aper to -which the instrument refers wdl be deemed con.sirücí'.vely inserted beforé the point is reached where the subscription by the decedent and sign ing by tlie witnesses are made. The map then becomes incorporated in the instrument subscribed and signed by the testator and the witnesses.””
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.