Schaefer v. Ziebell’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably In Re Rowland's Estate (1945), 11 Wis. 2d 15 - Kuehn v. Kuehn (1960)
37 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 Mackall v. Mackall · Will of Ball v. Boston · Vance v. Davis · Chase v. Amadon · Clark v. Mueller
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The . . . powerless victim of the purpose effected by ‘that subtle species of fraud’ — where such helplessness to resist direct or indirect suggestion is produced by ‘insidious approaches, seductive artifices, or other species of circumvention.’ Undue influence is the very antithesis of right influence. It exists only where there is practical destruction of voluntary volition, . . .””
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.