Franks v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1974
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 3213 provides that, `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.' This does not prescribe the mode of procedure, nor in what court it shall be instituted, but simply limits the time within which such procedure shall be instituted. The reference indicates that this section of the Revised Statutes is a part of section 3 of the Act of August 9, 1876. General Laws 1876, p. 94.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Minor v. Hall“The parties seek in this cause to revise, review or correct proceedings had in the probate court; to annul its decree probating the will of Chapman; and to do so they must pursue the method prescribed by law to confer jurisdiction of the matter upon the district courts, for such courts have no original jurisdiction to probate wills, nor to annul a decree of a probate court admitting a will to probate, unless it be in a case in which a county judge is disqualified, when such power is expressly conferred, Const. art. 5, § 16.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Minor v. Hall“As the district courts have no original jurisdiction to probate wills, except in the case specially provided for in the Constitution, if such courts can probate a will at all in other cases, it can only be done by them when jurisdiction is had over the case under the appellate jurisdiction given by the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Minor v. Hall
How this case has been treated — in progress
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