Farmer Will’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
January 1968
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Leedom v. Palmer · Pusey's Estate · Williams v. McCarroll · Ash Will · Llewellyn's Estate
Most-quoted passages
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““. . . We held in Llewellyn’s Estate, 296 Pa. 74 , 145 A 810, that the fact that proponent drew checks, paid bills and slept in the same room with decedent to take care of him, did not establish a confidential relationship. These contestants’ proof is far less. Mere kinship certainly does not establish the relation, and her dependency on him, which was slight, did not ‘necessarily beget a confidential relation, indeed, it may be quite the reverse’...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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