Lamb v. Helm’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1983
1 federal appellate · 17 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.
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.
“‘When a contest is commenced under our statute either to establish a will which has been rejected or allowed and probated in the probate court, the effect is the same as if an appeal had been taken from the action of the probate to the circuit court, where the question could be tried anew, just as if no action had been taken in the probate court. The party who relies on or asserts the validity of the will must prove it up, and in the same manner and to the same extent as if no action had been taken in the probate court. In fact, the action of the probate court becomes wholly void by such contest, so far as the efficacy of the will is concerned. The effect of the contestant’s petition and proceedings under it was to transfer the whole matter to the court [circuit court] where the proceedings are pending.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oakley v. Taylor
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.