Forrister v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 1978 · most notably Walker v. Bohannan (1912), Grodsky v. Consolidated Bag Co. (1930)
69 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 Liese v. Meyer · Kinney v. Murray · Anderson v. McPike · Bishop v. Brittain Investment Co. · Schad v. Sharp
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There must be an absence of doubt or equivocation throughout the whole case in pleadings and proof. From end to end it must be made out beyond a reasonable doubt and the state of the proof must bring the case within the reason of the exception . . . A mere testamentary disposition to devise by will . . . by way of gift or as a reward for services not plainly provoked by and bottomed on the contract in suit, will not take the case out of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steere v. Palmer
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.