McGrail v. Rhoades’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
November 1977
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Odom v. Langston · Potter v. Jones · Benoist v. Murrin · Hall v. Mercantile Trust Co. · Lee v. Ullery
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But, the mental error must have actually been operative in the production of the instrument, in the testamentary act, and although there was a delusion if the testator was in fact motivated by other rational reasons his will may not be set aside because of monomania. Lareau v. Lareau, Mo., 208 S.W. 241 ; Benoist v. Murrin, 58 Mo. 307, 323-324 ; Hall v. Mercantile Trust Co., 332 Mo. 802 , 59 S.W.2d 664 ." 323 S.W.2d at 821 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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