Hamilton v. Steininger’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably McCoy v. McCoy (1950), Sebree v. Rosen (1961)
68 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 Pulitzer v. Chapman · Loehr v. Starke · Teckenbrock v. McLauglhin · Lastofka v. Lastofka · Robinson v. Field
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Undue influence, which is sufficient to warrant a court in holding a will or a deed invalid, must be such overpersuasion, coercion, force, or deception as breaks the will power of the testator or grantor and puts in its stead the will of another.' Shaw v. Butler, supra [Mo.], 78 S.W.2d 420 , 428; Patton v. Shelton, 328 Mo. 631 , 40 S.W.2d 706, 714 ; Teckenbrock v. McLaughlin, 209 Mo. 533 , 108 S.W. 46, 51 . There must be proof of such undue influence, either in fact or presumptively.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“presumption may be overcome by evidence showing that the deed in fact expressed the wish of the grantor and was the result of voluntary action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Been v. Jolly“One dollar and other good and valuable considerations,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Been v. Jolly
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.