Young Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Masciantonio Will (1958), Lare Will (1944)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Commonwealth v. Harman · Delaurentiis's Estate · Porter's Estate · Henry's Estate · Swope v. Donnelly
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no law requiring that in cases such as this the evidence to be “corroborated” must be of such a “direct and positive” character as to consist of the testimony of some one who was with the decedent at all times when the questioned document could have been executed by [the decedent] and who positively swears that the decedent did not execute the document. In such cases posi tive and direct evidence is the most nearly positive and direct evidence which the nature of the case will admit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * ‘There are no rules in our system of evidence prescribing for the jury the precise effect of any general or special class of evidence. * * * it is out of the question to make a general assertion ascribing greater weight to one class or to the other * * *' ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A forger would rather forge nine letters of a name than twelve letters.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daroff Estate
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.