Null's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Frowen v. Blank (1981), YOUNG v. Kaye (1971)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 110 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 Leedom v. Palmer · Lawrence's Estate · Thorndell v. Munn · Harrison v. Welsh · Wilson v. Mitchell
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'when the circumstances make it certain the parties do not deal on equal terms, but on the one side there is an overmastering influence, or, on the other, weakness, dependence, or trust, justifiably reposed; in both an unfair advantage is possible.'”
4 later decisions 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.