Brown v. Avery ex rel. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1977
17 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 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Crosby · Barnewall v. Murrell · Heaston v. Krieg · Lines v. Darden · In re Kennedy's Estate
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.
“Every last will and testament disposing of real estate shall be signed by the testator, or by some other person in his presence, and by his expressed directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said testator by two or more witnesses, or else it shall be utterly void and of non-effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All wills of personal property shall be in writing, and signed by the testator or some other person in his presence, and by his express direction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.