Moramarco v. Moramarco’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 98 Cal. App. 2d 562 - Estate of Arbuckle (1950), 133 Cal. App. 2d 705 - Palmer v. Wahler (1955)
35 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 Estate of Bristol v. Young · Brison v. Brison · In Re Estate of Pepper · Wadleigh v. Phelps · Couts v. Winston
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f it was proved to be a true copy, the terms of the will were thereby established,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“shown to have been destroyed fraudulently or by public calamity in the lifetime of the testator, without his knowledge”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“proved to have been in existence at the time of the death of the testator”
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.