Ash Will’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Williams v. McCarroll (1953), Quein Will (1948)
86 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 Phillips' Estate · Lawrence's Estate · Rosenthal's Estate · Aggas v. Munnell · Szmahl's Estate
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is no evidence of weakened intellect, the burden is upon those asserting undue influence to prove it, even where the bulk of the estate is left to one occupying a confidential relation. Ash Will, 351 Pa. 317 , 41 A. 2d 620 ; Phillips’ Estate, 244 Pa. 35, 44 , 90 A. 457 ; Lawrence’s Estate, 286 Pa. 58 , 132 A. 786 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoffmann Estate““In a will contest, its is sufficient for the proponents in the first instance to offer the register’s record of probate including the will; thereupon the burden of proof shifts to the contestants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jack 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.