In Re Richter's Will’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1996
14 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 McDonald v. McDonald · Morrison v. Land · In Re Morrow's Will · Otto-Johnson Mercantile Co. v. Garcia · In re Will of Hunt
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.
““ * * * For purposes of our review, it is as though the trial court upon setting aside the verdicts had entered judgment for appellees. A pure question of law is presented which we are disposed to settle now. The granting of a new trial for the reasons set forth in the trial court’s opinion, viewed in the light of appellant’s announcement that he has no more evidence to offer, is such an order ‘as practically disposes of the merits of the action,’ * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. Zimmerman““It would have more clearly reflected the decision had it been stated: ‘An order granting a new trial based upon errors of law is appealable if such order “practically disposes of the merits of the action,” etc.’ ””
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.