Martin v. Bowdern’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1976
22 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 Schierbaum v. Schemme · Grimm v. Tittman
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The testimony amply shows that the testator was of legal age, sane and fully competent to make a will. He knew what act he was performing, what property he possessed, the disposition he was making of it and the persons and objects of his bounty, for he dictated the terms of the will himself, and the face of the will shows these facts. This is all the law requires.” (p. 390.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wisner v. Chandler
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.