Mullen v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 1938 · most notably Councill v. Mayhew (1911), Lewis v. Martin (1923)
31 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 Coghill v. Kennedy · Bancroft v. Otis · Taylor v. Kelly · Eastis v. Montgomery · Eastis v. Montgomery
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, undue influence which will void a will must amount to coercion or fraud — an influence tantamount to force or fear, and which destroys the free agency of the party, and constrains him to do what is against his will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Hale
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.