Willman v. Railing’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2010
6 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 174 Ind. App. 382 - In Re the Marriage of Rinderknecht · 176 Ind. App. 684 - Killearn Properties, Inc. v. Lambright · 159 Ind. App. 586 - Brown v. Gardner · State v. Omega Painting, Inc. · Modlin v. Riggle
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When an action is brought to contest the validity of any will as provided in this article, summons shall be served upon the defendants in the manner following: (1) If the defendant is a resident of the state of Indiana summons shall be served on him by the sheriff as provided in IC XX-X-X-XX(a). (2) If the defendant is a nonresident of the state of Indiana notice shall be served on him as provided in IC XX-X-X-XX(b)." (emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rules 4 through 4.16 shall not replace the manner of serving summons or giving notice as specially provided by statute or rule in proceedings involving, without limitation, the administration of decedent's estates, guardianships, receiv-erships, assignments for the benefit of creditors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A proceeding to contest the validity of an alleged will is purely statutory and can be brought and successfully maintained in the manner and within the limitations prescribed by statute. [citations omitted.] Failure to give the notice prescribed by statute leaves the trial court without jurisdiction over the proceeding."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milligan v. Denham
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.