Fields v. Luck.’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1984
10 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 · Loehr v. Starke · Wahl v. Cunningham · Berkemeier v. Reller · German Evangelical Bethel Church of Concordia v. Reith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the presumption had no probative force and should not enter . . . into the determination of the question of testamentary capacity”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. Allison“that under the statute of wills in this State, the sanity of a testator is not presumed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. Allison“Twenty-one years of age and upward, of sound mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. Allison
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.