Hansbarger v. Hansbarger’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2007
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Chase v. Dickey · Bean v. Bean · Conklin v. Conklin · Black v. Herring · Layer v. Layer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the rule in this State that persons having-such an interest in an estate as entitles them to contest a will may make agreements to forbear or prevent contests. Bean v. Bean, 144 Mich. 599 ; Hull v. Hull, 149 Mich. 500 ; Garvin v. Stone, 152 Mich. 594 ; Conklin v. Conklin, 165 Mich. 571 ; Layer v. Layer, 184 Mich. 663 ; Sellers v. Perry, 191 Mich. 619 .””
2 later decisions 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.