Harmon v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2017
3 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 Noeling v. State · 441 So. 2d 1105 - In Re Estate of Schriver · 491 So. 2d 301 - Smail v. Hutchins · 596 So. 2d 1139 - Harmon v. Williams
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Right of election; by whom exercisable The right of election may be exercised: (1) By the surviving spouse. (2) By an attorney in fact or a guardian of the property of the surviving spouse, with approval of the court having jurisdiction of the probate proceeding. The court shall determine the election as the best interests of the surviving spouse, during the spouse’s probable lifetime, require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Brand
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.