Noon v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1948 · most notably In Re Allen's Estate. (1925), In Re Cotcher's Estate (1936)
31 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 Prentis v. Bates · McKeand v. Jones · Blackman v. Andrews · Hibbard v. Baker · Leffingwell v. Bettinghouse
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Instances of forgetfulness, habits of untidiness increasing with advancing years, and failure to exhaust the subject of conversations, afford no evidence of lack of testamentary capacity.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We find no evidence that Agnes ever requested testator to leave her his property. But if it may be inferred, that she desired his property, and that she communicated that desire to him, that does not constitute undue influence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Luders' Estate
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.