Bronson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1984
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Testamentary is defined by Webster's New International Dictionary, 2nd Ed., as "Of or pertaining to a will, or testament, or the administration of a will." In view of this definition, it seems almost too elementary to require statement, that matters pertaining to wills, and questions arising in the administration of wills, including a construction thereof are testamentary matters. And that where the only relief sought in an action is a construction of a will in aid of administration, it is exclusively a testamentary matter. The district court therefore did not have jurisdiction of the subject matter of this action. * * * Bronson v. Johnson, 76 N.D. 122 , 33 N.W.2d 819, at 820 .”
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.