Boren v. Boren’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably In Re Estate of Livingston (1999), Cherry v. Reed (1974)
35 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 In Re Price's Estate · McGrew v. Bartlett · Boren v. Boren
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] testamentary document to be self-proved, must first be a will.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“We, the undersigned, Blima Fordonska a/k/a Bluma Fordorski, Arthur M. Kagin and Yossi Jacobson; the testator and the witnesses, respectively, whose names are signed to the attached and foregoing instrument, being first duly sworn, declare to the undersigned authority that said instrument is the testator's will and that testator willingly signed and executed such instrument, or expressly directed another to sign the name in the presence of witnesses, as a free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed; that said witnesses, and each of them, declare to the undersigned authority that such will was executed and acknowledged by the testator as the testator’s will in their presence and that they, in the presence of each other, did subscribe their names thereto as attesting witnesses on the date of the date of such will; and that the testator, at the time of the execution of such instrument, was of full age and of sound mind and that the witnesses were sixteen years or older and otherwise competent to be witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the said witnesses, each on his oath stated to me, in the presence and hearing of the said testator, that the said testator had declared to them that said instrument is his last will and testament, and that he executed same as such and wanted each of them to sign it as a witness. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Traylor
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.