Brown v. Emerson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1987
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 Taylor v. McClintock · Mason v. Bowen · Tobin v. Jenkins · Hyatt v. Wroten · Phillips 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘We do not mean to say that a will should be disturbed merely because it is unreasonable and unjust, but where * * * it does violence to the natural instincts of the heart, to the dictates of fatherly affection, to natural justice, to solemn promises, to moral duty, such unexplained inequality and unreasonableness is entitled to great influence in considering the question of testamentary capacity and undue influence.’ If the provisions of the will are unjust,. unreasonable and unnatural, the court may consider that fact as a circumstance in determining the mental capacity of the testator.””
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.