Clark v. Magee’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1992
12 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 Woodville v. Pizzati · Wherry v. Latimer · Sanders v. Sanders · Morris v. Morris
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence must show that the will of the grantor was so dominated that free agency was destroyed and the deed became the deed of the person exerting the influence. The influence exerted, whether by means of advice, arguments, persuasions, solicitations, suggestion, or entreaty, to constitute undue influence, must be so importunate and persistent, or otherwise so operate, as to subdue and subordinate the will and take away its free agency. And it is the end accomplished which colors the influence exerted and entitles a court to speak of it as wrongful, fraudulent, or undue, on the one hand, and as proper and justifiable on the other.”
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.