In Re Morrow's Will’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1999
23 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 Case of Broderick's Will · Sutton v. English · Farrell v. O'Brien · Gaines v. Fuentes · Ellis v. Davis
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes, § 600; Black on Interpretation of Laws (2d Ed.) § 44. For convenience we copy the statute again: "Sec. 154-211. When a will has been approved, any person interested may at any time within one year after such probate, contest the same or the validity of the will. For that purpose he shall file in the court in which the will was proved, a petition in writing, containing his allegations against the validity of the will or against the sufficiency of the proof, and praying that the probate may be revoked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Morrow's Will“With reference to proceedings in the English courts, see Ellis v. Davis, 109 U.S. 485 , 3 S.Ct. 327 , 332 , 27 L.Ed. 1006 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Morrow's Will
How this case has been treated — in progress
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