Pepin v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1995
15 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 O'Dea v. Amodeo · Page v. Phelps · Preston v. Preston · Livingston's Appeal From Probate · Lockwood v. Lockwood
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, the burden of proving undue influence rests upon him who seeks to have a will set aside on this ground, but ‘where the natural object of the testator’s bounty is excluded from participation in his estate, where a stranger supplants children, and the will is in favor of . . . the guardian having charge of his person and estate. . . there is imposed upon the proponents of the will, upon the trial of the issue as thus raised, the obligation of disproving by a clear preponderance of evidence the affirmation of the actual exercise of undue influence by such beneficiaries of the will. St. Leger’s Appeal, 34 Conn. 434, 450 , 91 Am.Dec. 735; Dale’s Appeal, 57 Conn. 127, 143 , 17 A. 757 .’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the practical effect of the principle is to change a permissible inference of fact into a necessary presumption of fact”
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.