McEvoy v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1954
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are tempted to inquire if the validity vel non of Mrs. Leonard’s will should not be first determined, before any other questions sought to be presented are brought before the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Walter
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.