Lundquist v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1961
7 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 14 E.H. Smith 584 - Dobie v. . Armstrong · Middleditch v. Williams · In Re Proving the Will of Heaton · Will of Cole · Syth v. Shanks
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The important question upon the trial of this contest was not alone, whether the deceased had, at the time of executing the instrument, testamentary capacity as defined by law, but whether such testamentary capacity was affected by any of her delusions. The controlling issue in this case is whether the delusions and obsessions of the deceased materially influenced the provisions of her will or, as it may be otherwise expressed, materially affected her will as made. . . . “When all of the facts and circumstances are considered, this will is not only unnatural but decidedly unjust. Its very provisions, when considered in connection with the undisputed facts, namely, that her husband was her only heir at law; that for over thirty years he had cared for her and treated her kindly; that she bore him no ill will and that she left no property except that which he had given her or which had been added thereto as a result of their joint labors, give rise to questions and doubts. One naturally asks, why? The record reveals the answer. She was insane and her obsessions and delusions relative to her husband’s brothers controlled and influenced her in the making of her will.” (Pages 674, 675.) “The undisputed fact of her insanity makes it impossible for us to see In her attitude towárd her husband’s brothers and her beliefs in regard to them, anything but insane delusions. We entertain no doubt that the delusions of the deceased relating to her husband’s brothers materially influenced he”
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.