Perez v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2018
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.
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.
“Process was doubtless waived by those who appeared, but the rest of the heirs of the deceased were necessary parties to the proceeding, and if they were not before the court, the probate of the will was improperly had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heavey v. Castles
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.