Watson v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2005
8 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 Hunt v. Acre · Johnston v. Glasscock · Hardy v. Hardy's Heirs
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to set aside the probate of a will at any time upon the discovery of a posterior will of the testator, and upon proper proof of its execution by the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The attempt to set aside a probated will . . . by proving a later one . . . is a contest of the validity of the former will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“having undergone a change in phraseology, but not in meaning, in passing through our various Codes enacted since that time.”
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.