Kaiser v. Happel’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 1990 · most notably 175 Ind. App. 186 - State Farm v. Shuman, Admx. (1977), Epstein v. Boston Housing Authority (1944)
34 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 Baltimore Ohio R. Co. v. Reyher, Admx. · Blough v. Parry · Steinkuehler v. Wempner · City of Indianapolis v. Keeley · Rush v. Megee
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ T instruct you that under the law, every person is presumed to be of sound mind until the contrary is proved and in this case the law presumes that Amelia Seip was a person of sound mind at the time of the execution of the will in controversy, and the defendants are entitled to the benefit of this presumption until and unless such presumption is overcome by a preponderance of all the evidence ....’””
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.