Matter of Ferrill’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Paiz v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1994), Doughty v. Morris (1994)
62 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 Hall v. Cole · Tapia v. Panhandle Steel Erectors Company · Perea v. Baca · Cox v. C. H. Masland & Sons, Inc. · Galvan v. Miller
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If demanded, in the manner provided by the Rules of Civil Procedure, a party is entitled to a trial by jury in a formal testacy proceeding and in any proceeding in which any controverted question of fact arises as to which any party has a constitutional right to trial by jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzales v. Lopez“Evidence that sheds light on the relationship between the testatrix and a primary beneficiary of the will is relevant in determining the existence of undue influence, even when the evidence pertains to events taking place after the will was executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the instant case, inasmuch as [appellant] failed to proceed to seek a determination of the motion, but proceeded to trial[,] . . . this conduct constituted waiver or abandonment of the motion ... precluding its consideration in this appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Berna-Mork v. Jones
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.