Gross v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1999
6 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 Taylor v. McClintock · McCulloch v. Campbell · Pledger v. Birkhead · Donaldson v. Johnson · McEvoy v. Tucker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not sufficient that the ... testator was influenced by the beneficiary in the ordinary affairs of life, or that he was in close touch and upon confidential terms with him; but there must be a malign influence resulting from fear, coercion, or any other cause which deprives the ... testator of his free agency in disposing of his property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hodges v. Cannon““Natural love and affection has always been held to be sufficient consideration for a deed where the relationship of the parties is such as to justify the presumption that love and affection exist.” Gross v. Young, 242 Ark. 604 , 414 S.W.2d 624, 627 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trengen v. Mongeon
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.