Elmore v. Elmore’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2011
6 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 Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Givens · Bartlet v. Harlow · Prairie Oil & Gas Co. v. Allen · Varnum v. Abbot · Potter v. Wallace
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attempt to alienate a specific, located portion of the interest of a tenant in common is voidable at the election of the grantor's cotenants. . . . Obviously, the plaintiff [the testatrix's son] in this case has elected to avoid the devise of one acre to Mrs. Turner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Intestacy is not favored but a construction leading to a valid will is favored.”
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.