Leedom Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1983
13 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 Estate of McGovran · Alexander's Estate · Thomas v. Carter · Power v. Overholt
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is well settled that “A delusion which will render invalid a [W]ill executed as the direct result of it is an insane belief or a mere figment of the imagination—a belief in the existence of something which does not exist and which no rational person, in the absence of evidence, would believe to exist.” ’ ” (Citation omitted)”
1 later decision 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.