State Ex Rel. Cooper v. Cloyd’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2003
15 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 Morrison v. Land · Steggall Ex Rel. Stegall v. Morris · Gardner v. Vanlandingham · Low v. Low · Campbell v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless any person interested in the probate of a will appears within six months after the date of probate of (sic) rejection thereof . .. and, ... contests the validity of a probated will, ... then probate ... of the will is binding.””
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.