Bushman v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Pulitzer v. Chapman (1935), Loehr v. Starke (1933)
36 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 Jackson v. Hardin · Louis Beyer v. Caroline Le Fevre · Thompson v. Ish · Schierbaum v. Schemme · Mowry v. Norman
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Its harshness and unnatural features only operate when coupled with present facts tending to show undue influence when that is the issue, or testamentary incapacity when that is the issue. A testator when writing his will need not write it as a supplication to a jury, viz: `I wish my property to go so and so, and hope that a jury will upon the subject think the same as I do, and confirm my act.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beckmann v. Beckmann“must be of such a nature as to afford substantial proof”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beckmann v. Beckmann
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.