MacMillan v. Knost’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.2d 235 · 1942
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2008
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Louis Beyer v. Caroline Le Fevre · 5 F. Supp. 182 - United States v. One Book Called" Ulysses" · Brooke v. Barnes · 39 App. D.C. 170 - Hagerty v. Olmstead
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[o]ne has the right to influence another to make a will in his favor. He may ... lay his claims for preferment before the testator. They may be based on kinship or friendship or kindness or service or need or any other sentimental or material consideration. One can use argument and persuasion so long as it is fair and honest and does not go to an oppressive degree where it becomes coercive.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Confidential relations existing between the testator and beneficiary do not alone furnish any presumption of undue influence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“possibility or suspicion of undue influence is not enough.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Weihs v. Holmead
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.