Thill v. Freiermuth’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1943
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 Conley v. Nailor · Schmidt v. Schmidt · Foster v. Dearborn · Fischer v. Sperl · In re the Probate of the Will of Layman
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.
““In view of another trial it may be noted that the “defendant was restricted in his proof of knowledge within the possession of the old gentleman’s attorney. In this connection Coates v. Semper, 82 Minn. 460 , 85 N. W. 217 , and In re Layman’s Will, 40 Minn. 371 , 42 N. W. 286 , may be examined.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larson v. Dahlstrom““It is not enough that the one benefited had an opportunity to exert undue influence and the motive for exercising it. [Citing cases.] There must be undue influence exercised in fact and it must be effective.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berg v. Berg
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.