Welch v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1981
23 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 Apache State Bank v. Daniels · Lyons v. Campbell · Hartman v. Strickler · 44 N.J. Eq. 154 - Elkinton v. Brick · Leverett's Heirs v. Carlisle
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the mere fact that a will is written by a party who takes a benefit under it does not invalidate it,- yet, if the benefit is largo, and especially if the beneficiary is a stranger to the testator’s blood, the instrument will be scrutinized with suspicion, and clear proof that the testator knew its contents will be required to admit it to probate. Proof of testamentary capacity and of formal execution are insufficient.””
2 later decisions 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.