Hall v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2016
20 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 Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp. · Kerr v. Lunsford · Riggsby v. Tritton · Redford v. Booker · Rust v. Reid
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proving testamentary capacity is on the propounder of the will and continues upon him throughout any contest on that question. Dickens v. Bonnewell, 160 Va. 194 , 168 S.E. 610 [(1933)]; Good v. Dyer, 137 Va. 114 , 119 S.E. 277 [(1923)]. This burden of proof is not to be confused with the burden of producing evidence. That burden frequently passes from party to party during the progress of a trial, but the necessity of proving his case always rests upon the plaintiff and never shifts. Riggsby v. Tritton, 143 Va. 903 , 129 S.E. 493 , 45 A.L.R. 280 [(1925)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n determining the mental capacity of a testator, great weight is to be attached to the testimony of the draftsman of the will, of the attesting witnesses, and of attending physicians.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parish v. Parish
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.