Neill v. Yett’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016
5 federal appellate · 9 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 Russell v. United States · " MOORE" BURGER, INC. v. Phillips Petroleum Company · Quinn v. Press · Sherman v. Sipper · Mooney v. Harlin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any event and if, indeed, a cause of action for tortious interference with an “inheritance expectancy” exists, the district court properly granted summary judgment. The summary judgment proof conclusively established that such cause, as well as the claim for fraud upon which a constructive trust might be imposed, was barred by limitations. •”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Archer“[p]ersons interested in an estate are charged with notice of the contents of probate records.”). 7 . The trial court’s Conclusion of Law Number 12 states”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jean v. Tyson-Jean
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.