132 Ill. App. 2d 66 - Jackson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2005
13 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 In re Page · Moos v. Moos · In Re Estate of Morgan · 31 Ill. App. 2d 101 - In Re Estate of Marsh · Koester v. Jennings.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a last will and testament, after its execution, is retained by the testator and cannot be found upon his death, it is the well-settled rule of this and of the majority of jurisdictions that it will be presumed to have been destroyed by him animo revocandi. [Citations.] The same cases establish that the presumption is subject to being rebutted by circumstances which tend to show a contrary conclusion, and that the burden is on one seeking to probate such a will to prove that it was unrevoked at the testator’s death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““However, it is also the rule that this presumption is subject to being refuted by circumstances showing a contrary conclusion, such as statements by the testator that he did not intend to revoke the will; that he entertained a kind and loving attitude toward the proposed beneficiary under the will; and lastly, that other persons who had an adverse interest had possession or access to the testator’s will either before or after his death. [Citation.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““All these matters moreover were considered by the trial court and a jury. On the basis of these findings, this Court neither wishes to substitute its judgment for that of the jury or trial court, nor does it find the decision contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.” See also Knaphurst v. Lindauer 61 Ill.2d 269 , 210 N.E.2d 23 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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