Dickson v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2019
19 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 Selden v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Storrs v. St. Luke's Hospital · Ingersoll v. Gourley · Abrams v. Ross' Estate · Wolf v. Chicago Sign Printing 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are, however, not in accord with these quotations, believing that the better reasoning, *Page 731 as well as the weight of authority, supports the contrary idea to the effect that this right of action is assignable and is the subject of conveyance, and that a `person interested' means any one who has an interest in the subject-matter of the proceeding, which is the estate of the deceased, at any time within the four years within which a suit to contest the will can be instituted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Morrow's Will“Any person interested in any will which shall have been probated under the laws of this State may institute suit in the proper court to contest the validity thereof, within four years after such will shall have been admitted to probate, and not afterward.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Morrow's Will
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.