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Mowry v. Norman’s Empirical Analysis

1907

Citation profile

60
cited by 60 later decisions
8
states following
August 1978
most recently cited

60 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 1978 · most notably Loehr v. Starke (1933), Teckenbrock v. McLauglhin (1908)

60 state decisions

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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 Gannon v. Laclede Gas Light Co. · Marx v. . McGlynn · Gay v. Gillilant · Maddox v. Maddox · Berberet v. Berberet

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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Nor is it required that the overt acts of undue influence were exercised at the exact time of the execution of the will, but it is sufficient to show that such influence over the mind of the testator had been acquired previously and did operate at the time of making the will in the disposition of the testator's property.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Undue influence need not be proven by direct and positive testimony, but it is sufficient if it is shown by, or can be inferred from, the facts and circumstances in evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. ““. . . and the onus is cast upon the beneficiaries to make explanation of the transaction, and establish its reasonableness.””
    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.