Magee v. McNeil’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1990
14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The condition is plainly expressed. There being no latent ambiguity, the intention is to be collected from the language employed, and that language is unequivocal. The event having happened upon which the existence and operation of the testamentary disposition depended, the will became inoperative and void, and ought not to have been admitted to probate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Martin
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.