Williams v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2016
5 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 47 Tenn. App. 223 - Kelley v. Brading · Murrell v. Rich
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... There is no formal announcement required to establish oneself as a contestant to the validity of any last will or testament. Notice may be given but it is not required. A person desiring to contest a will need do no more than make that fact known. When his interest is made known and his right to contest has been established, under the provisions of T.C.A. § 32-4-101 the court having probate jurisdiction must certify the fact of the contest to the circuit court which has original and exclusive jurisdiction of the issue of devisavit vel non.”
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.