Eason v. Eason’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2011
3 federal appellate · 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 Doyle v. Rody · Owen v. Crumbaugh · Tate v. Chumbley · Johnson v. Johnson · Alegria v. Alegria
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The Court instructs the jury that the evidence of physicians, especially those who attended the testatrix, Mary F. Eason, and were with her considerably during her last illness, is entitled to great weight and is especially so in the case of the physician attending the testatrix through her last illness when the will was executed.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the case has been fairly presented and there is credible evidence to support the conclusion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One man should not dictate, change or annul another's will either in court or out. The preservation of the privilege of making one's own will brings to the old and helpless a consideration which might not otherwise always be extended to them, and should not be whittled away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomason v. Carlton
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.