Robinson v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1952
20 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Witnesses to a will are permitted to testify as to the opinions which they formed of testator’s capacity, at the time of executing his will”,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Paradis'will“The rule allows great liberality to both parties as to the kind of evidence and as to the length of time over which it extends.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carroll
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.