Ipsen v. Ruess’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1975 · most notably D'AMATO v. Johnston (1953), Schmitt v. Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc. (1969)
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 Grismore v. Consolidated Products Co. · Ramseyer v. Dennis · O'Dell v. O'Dell · Barricklow v. Stewart · In Re Estate of Heller
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true there is an impressive array of witnesses for proponents who have drawn a quite different picture of testator. Some thirteen nonexpert witnesses, all apparently disinterested, most of them of long and rather intimate acquaintance (many of over thirty years) with testator, testified in effect they, never observed any of the unusual matters related by contestants and gave their opinion he was of sound mind down to the time of his last illness in 1946.””
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.