Shacklett v. Roller’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1983
14 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 Parramore v. Taylor · Burkholder v. Ludlam · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Mosby · George Campbell Co. v. George Angus & Co. · Barley v. Byrd
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The declarations of a testator, after he has made his will, as to its continued existence, its contents, or its revocation, where the will cannot be found after his death, is recognized under certain circumstances as entitled to great weight, not only by judges who think such evidence admissible, but also by those who reject it. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Hardin
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.