Hill v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably McCarty v. Weatherly (1922), In Re Nitey's Estate (1935)
1 federal appellate · 33 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 Peck v. . Cary · Kiah v. Grenier · Trustees of Auburn Seminary v. . Calhoun · Gilbert v. . Knox · Orser v. . Orser
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The Legislature has the power, in granting the right, to determine and prescribe the form and manner in which it shall be exercised. * * *"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Hence it is necessary that the testator should in some manner communicate to the-attesting witnesses, at the time of his subscription or acknowledgment, the information that the instrument which they are-called upon to sign as witnesses is his will (Gilbert v. Knox, 52 N. Y. 125, 128 ; Lewis v. Lewis, 11 N. Y. 220, 226 ; Coffin v. Coffin, 23 N. Y. 1 , 15; Seymour v. Van Wyck, 6 N. Y. 120 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCarty v. Weatherly““The testator must, at the time of' subscribing or acknowledging the same, declare to the attesting witnesses that the instrument is his will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCarty v. Weatherly
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.