Nugent v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2017
12 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 Hamill v. Hamill · Gross v. Burneston · Schlossberg v. Schlossberg · Wright v. Nugent · 23 Md. App. 337 - Wright v. Nugent
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... if the paper be perfect on its face and validly executed, and if, by its terms, it discloses that it was written animo testandi, it must, if voluntarily made by a competent testator, stand as his will.... In such case parol declarations of the deceased can never be received for the purpose of revoking, or altering, or in any way preventing the instrument from operating as a will....' [citation omitted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mr. Nugent maintains that it was error to submit any issue regarding fraud, which was nowhere referred to in Mrs. Wright’s petition, although undue influence was. There is a clear cut distinction between the two, and an issue framed on a subject not contested must not be submitted,. The court, therefore, erred in granting Issues (7) and (8) in the form submitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(7) Was George Ainslie Nugent in a confidential relationship to Aldaee Freeman Walker?” “(8) If the answer to Issue No. 7 is ‘yes’, was the paper dated April 8, 1973, purported to be the Last Will and Testament of Aldaee Freeman Walker, procured by fraud or undue influence exercised upon him by George Ainslie Nugent?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.