Blalock v. Magee’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 421 So. 2d 1031 - Hendricks v. James (1982), Wallace v. Harrison (1953)
25 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 Sheehan v. Kearney · Goins v. State · Fortenberry v. Herrington · Levy v. McMullen · Warren v. Sidney's Estate
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of the risk of error to be incurred in trying to properly phrase an instruction containing such words as being `left uncertain and doubtful', we think it would avoid the hazard of reversal incident thereto, in cases where too close issue of fact is involved, if a contestant in a will case or defendants in other civil cases should be content for their instructions on the burden of proof to go no farther than to advise the jury that the propopent or plaintiff is required to establish the issue by a preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis“if all the evidence in the case left it doubtful whether the instrument propounded was the true last will of the deceased, the jury should find against its validity....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a true statement of the law applicable to the developed facts of the case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis
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.