Hoff v. Armbruster’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2011
11 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 Doyle v. Fischer · Eder v. Methodist Episcopal Church Ass'n · Williams v. Pollard
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a will which cannot be found following the death of the testator is shown to have been in his possession when last seen, the presumption is, in the absence of other evidence, that he destroyed it animo revocandi.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this cause the evidence clearly shows that the will, probate of which is sought, was last seen in the exclusive possession and control of decedent. Upon [decedent's] death, and after thorough search, it could not be found. Under such cireum-stances the law presumes that the maker of the will destroyed it with intent to revoke.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caldwell v. Caldwell“In this cause the evidence clearly shows that the will, probate of which is sought, was last seen in the exclusive possession and control of decedent. Upon [decedent's] death, and after thorough search, it could not be found. Under such circumstances the law presumes that the maker of the will destroyed it with intent to revoke.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.