Alper v. Alper’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2006
4 district · 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 129 N.J. Eq. 444 - Girard Trust Co. v. Schmitz · Kayhart v. Whitehead · Rudd v. Searles · Hoit v. Hoit · Bottomley v. Bottomley
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.
“Testamentary dispositions are required to be enforced unless contrary to public policy or a rule of positive law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the contest proceeds upon the typical grounds of fraud, undue influence, improper execution or lack of testamentary capacity, the condition is entirely reasonable and enforceable, notwithstanding the existence of probable cause for the contest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the shadowy lines of demarcation involved' in mental capacity, undue influence or fraud, and is less likely to be employed as a means of coercing a settlement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.