Bodine v. Bodine’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1998
20 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 Wigginton's v. Wigginton · Brent v. Fleming · Schrodt's v. Schrodt · Watson's Exr. v. Watson · Wood v. Corcoran
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Undue influence,’ to authorize the setting aside-of a will, must be such influence as obtains dominion over the mind of the testator to the extent that destroys every chance of the exercise of his own. will on his part in the disposal of his estate, and which constrains him, in respect thereto, to do that which he would not have done if left to the free-exercise of his own judgment, and it is not material when this undue influence was exerted, if it was present and operated on the mind of the testator at the time of his execution of the paper.””
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.