Apodaca v. Escontrias’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
March 1982
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation · Swilley v. Hughes · Rothermel v. Duncan · Citizens First National Bank of Tyler v. Cinco Exploration Co. · Matter of Estate of Woods
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After a will has been admitted to probate, any interested person may institute suit in the proper court to contest the validity thereof, within two years after such will shall have been admitted to probate, and not afterward, except that any interested person may institute suit in the proper court to cancel a will for forgery or other fraud within two years after the discovery of such forgery or fraud, and not afterward ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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