Werner v. Frederick’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.2d 627 · 1937
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1971
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Kennedy v. Walcutt · Bartlett v. Manor · Hamill v. Hamill · Dower v. Church · Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Devilbiss
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In denying a caveator the right to assail the validity of a will, the United States Court of Appeals, for the District of Columbia, in Werner v. Frederick, et al., 68 App.D.C. 158 , 94 F.2d 627 , at page 630 of the opinion stated: “ ‘The reason for requiring an interest to set aside a will to be shown, before an attack upon the will may proceed, is that the estate of a decedent ought not be subjected to the trouble and expense of an attack, except by one who, if the attack proves successful, would have some legal claim upon the estate. See Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Baltimore v. Devilbiss, 128 Md. 182, 187 , 97 A. 367, 369, 1916 .’ ””
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.