Soule v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1949
16 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 McCulloch v. Campbell · Maynard v. Vinton · Prentis v. Bates · Rush v. Megee · McKeand v. Jones
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In proceedings for the probate of wills, it shall not be necessary for the proponent in the first instance to introduce any proof to show the competency of the decedent to make a will, but the like presumption of mental competency shall obtain as in other cases.” 3 Comp. Laws 1929, §14212 (Stat. Ann. §27.907).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The influence to vitiate this will must have been such as to amount to force and coercion, destroying his free agency and there must be proof that the will was obtained by this coercion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gorelick v. Miller
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.