Warwick v. Warwick’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably In Re the Estate of Manchester (1917), Albright v. North (1905)
28 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recognizes no will as sufficiently signed unless it appears affirmatively from the position of the signature, as at the foot or end, or from some other internal evidence equally convincing, that the testator designed by the use of the signature to authenticate the instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Slate v. Titmus“extrinsic evidence is not employed to affect either pro or con the question of finality of intention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irving v. Divito
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.