Quein Will’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably In Re Estate of Pedrick (1984), Williams v. McCarroll (1953)
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 Dorrance's Estate · Belmont Laboratories, Inc. v. Heist · Pusey's Estate · Phillips' Estate · Ash Will
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.
“. The function of this process is to direct a jury to find the facts upon which the validity of a will might be determined. As stated by Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in Tatham v. Wright, 2 Russ. & M. 1, 15 (39 English Reports 295, 300) such trial by jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““While undue influence is subtle, intangible and merely psychic in its effects, so that its existence cannot be detected, weighed or measured by instruments of science, nevertheless human experience can — and in a case such as the present must — recognize it as the causative factor which linked the execution of this highly unnatural will to the circumstances preceding and attending it, and in which appellant, the sole beneficiary, played such a ruthless and dominating part.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dettra 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.