Scott v. McGirth’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1955
10 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 Eaves v. Mullen · Maharry v. Eatman · State ex rel. Ruhlman v. Ruhlman · Barksdale v. Davis · Burdett v. Burdett
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a will has been admitted to probate, any person interested therein may at any time within one year after such probate, contest the same or the validity of the will. For that purpose he must file in the court in which the will was proved a sworn petition in writing containing his allegations, that evidence discovered since the probate of the will, the material facts of which must be set forth, shows : “1. That a will of a later date than the one proved by the decedent, revoking or changing the former will, has been discovered, and is offered; or, “2. That some jurisdictional fact was wanting in the former probate; or, “3. That the testator was not competent, free from duress, menace, fraud, or undue influence when the will allowed was made; or, “4. That the former will was not duly executed and attested.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Battle v. Mason
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.