Graham v. . Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1975
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe, indeed, that there is no instance in which a paper has been sustained where the attestation was under such circumstances that the testator could not see what was done so as to protect himself upon his own knowledge against any dishonest substitution by the people whom he is obliged by the law to select and depend upon as subscribing witnesses to his will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burney v. . Allen“almost the possibility of imposition by substituting one paper for another, (319) without detection by the testator upon his own ocluar [ocular] observation, and without exposing him to any risks from undue confidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burney v. . Allen
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.