Hanna v. Magee’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2006
19 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 Pekin Wood Products Co. v. Mason · Allnutt v. Wood
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The settled rule, which has been many times approved by this court, is that a well connected train of circumstances is as cogent of the existence of a fact as an array of direct evidence, and frequently outweighs opposing direct testimony, and that any issue of fact in controversy can be established by circumstantial evidence when the circumstances adduced are such that reasonable minds might draw different conclusions.’ Hanna v. Magee, 189 Ark. 330 , 72 S.W. 2d 237 ; Pekin Wood Products Co. v. Mason, 185 Ark. 166 , 46 S.W. 2d 798 ; 23 C.J. 48.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No will of any testator shall be allowed to be proved as a lost or destroyed will, unless the same shall be proved to have been in existence at the time of the death of the testator, or be shown to have been fraudulently destroyed in the lifetime of the testator; nor unless its provisions be clearly and distinctly proved by at least two witnesses, a correct copy or draft deemed equivalent to one witness.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The burden of proof to establish the execution and contents of the lost will is upon the party who claims under it. The petitioner is usually required to prove the execution and the contents of the lost will by evidence which shall be strong, cogent and convincing. It is sometimes said that the evidence must be clear, full and satisfactory, though he is never required to produce evidence sufficient to remove all reasonable doubt from the mind of the court.””
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.