Knowles v. Binford’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably I. W. Berman Properties v. Porter Bros. (1975), Ryan v. Thurston (1975)
2 district · 25 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 Critzer v. Shegogue · Koppal v. Soules · Stockslager v. Hartle · Malone v. Malone · Frisoen v. Trapp
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““undue influence which will avoid a will must be unlawful on account of the manner and motive of its exertion, and must be exerted to such a degree as to amount to force or coercion, so that free agency of the testator is destroyed. The proof must be satisfactory that the will was obtained by this coercion ... or by importunities which could not be resisted, so that the motive for the execution was tantamount to force or fear. Mere suspicion that a will has been procured by undue influence, or that a person had the ‘power unduly to overbear the will of the testator’ is not enough. It must appear that the power was actually exercised, and that its exercise produced the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Upman v. Clarke
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.