Luis v. Muhrback’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1973 · most notably Chesapeake Ry Co v. Martin (1931), 98 Cal. App. 2d 562 - Estate of Arbuckle (1950)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · 16 E.H. Smith 569 - Hull v. . Littauer · McDonald v. McDonald · In Re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Kennedy · Kavanagh v. . Wilson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, when last seen, the will is shown to have been in the possession of the testatrix, and cannot be found, it must be presumed, in the absence of other evidence, that she destroyed it; * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The testimony of witnesses is not to be disregarded merely because [they are] interested in the result. Other reasons for discrediting them must appear.”
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.