McComb v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2003
7 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 Plemmons v. Pemberton · Bramell v. Adams · Transports, Inc. v. Perry · Gregory v. Borders · Shackleford v. Edwards
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When any estate is devised to any child, grandchild or other relative of the testator, and the devisee dies before the testator, ... leaving lineal descendants who survive the testator ..., the descendants shall take the estate, ... as the devisee would have done if he had survived the testator....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There must be a definite agreement, fair and just and certain in its terms and subject matter, to dispose of the property as in the wills provided; there must be a specific agreement that neither party will revoke his will — that they shall remain in force until the death of both testators; the agreement must be based upon a sufficient consideration, and the existence of such a contract must be shown by clear, cogent and convincing evidence.”
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.