Hardee v. Hardee’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably In Re the Will of Jones (2008), 117 N.C. App. 64 - Caudill v. Smith (1994)
30 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 Cutts v. Casey · Summey v. Cauthen · Daughtry v. Turnage · In Re the Purported Will of Andrews · Peek v. Shook
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Old age and physical and mental weakness of the person executing the instrument. 2. That the person signing the paper is in the home of the beneficiary and subject to his constant association and supervision. 3. That others have little or no opportunity to see him. 4. That the instrument is different and revokes a prior instrument. 5. That it is made in favor of one with whom there are no ties of blood. 6. That it disinherits the natural objects of his bounty. 7. That the beneficiary has procured its execution.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“controlling effect sufficient to destroy the person’s free agency and to render the instrument not properly an expression of the person’s wishes, but rather the expression of the wishes of another or others. “It is the substitution of the mind of the person exercising the influence for the mind of the [person executing the instrument], causing him to make [the instrument] which he otherwise would not have made.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The issue joined by the evidence in the case was whether deceased lacked mental capacity to execute a deed on or about [the date it was executed]. Evidence ofdeceased's mental state at other, remote times is not relevant.”
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.