Godfrey v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1940
6 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 McDonald v. McDonald · Lester v. Howard Bank · Barnard v. Barnard · Johnston v. Glasscock · Branch v. Mitchell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be noted that this provision of the statute requires that the will be proved by the oath of at least three witnesses who were present at the making thereof, and that it be proved that the' testator, at the time, did bid the persons present, or some of them, to bear witness that such was his will, or to that effect. Under this provision of the statute it must be proved that the deceased, while uttering the words offered as á will, had not only a present testamentary intention,- but also an intention to make ah oral will, and that he intended that the- words then uttered and no others should constitute his will. If he only gives instruction for. a will that he desires to- have reduced to writing, but fails to, execute, the instructions cannot be sustained as a nuncupative will.” ' ' ■ _”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State
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.