Blackman v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1938
23 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 Severance v. Severance · Hibbard v. Baker
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“_ “Not one of contestant’s witnesses testified to a single act inconsistent with sanity; not one of them testified to a single saying inconsistent with sanity. Under the authority of Hibbard v. Baker, 141 Mich. 124 , the opinions of these witnesses that testatrix lacked testamentary capacity should not have been received.””
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.