Kelley v. Marlin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Inc. v. Babin (1994), San Antonio Area Foundation v. Lang (2000)
6 federal appellate · 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Huffman v. Huffman · Potter v. Couch · White v. White · Frame v. Whitaker · Haring v. Shelton
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.
““When a person dies, leaving a lawful will, all of his estate devised or bequeathed by such will, and all powers of appointment granted in such will, shall vest immediately in the devisees or legatees of such estate and the donees of such powers; ..."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the single most important factor in construing a will.”
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.