Sieben v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1991
10 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 Estate of Ogg v. First National Bank of Madison · Knox v. Knox · State Ex Rel. Seifert v. Smith · Estate of Braasch · Will of Platt v. Bank of Baraboo
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of a statement of intent in the will that a named attorney be employed by the personal representative even at the cost of the resignation of the personal representative, an executor is not required to employ an attorney in opposition to the executor’s own wishes.” (P. 170.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the absence of such a recitation it will be assumed that testator had some legitimate reason which prompted him in requesting that a particular attorney be employed by the executor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . such reasons being that Mr. Biart had an intimate knowledge of testator’s affairs, views, and wishes respecting many matters that might arise . . . .” (P. 188.)”
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.