Thompson Will’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Truver v. Kennedy (1967), Brantlinger Will (1965)
33 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 Leedom v. Palmer · Null's Estate · McCown v. Fraser · Williams v. McCarroll · Phillips' 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Weakness, dependence or trust justifiably reposed’ is not created merely by nursing and caring for an old sick lady; that language or yardstick refers to and requires a relationship which involves or includes managing or advising a dependent person in business or financial matters: cf. Brennan’s Estate, 312 Pa. 335 , 168 A. 25 ; Rover’s Estate, 339 Pa. 423 , 12 A. 2d 923 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The word ‘influence’ does not refer to any and every line of conduct capable of' disposing in one’s favor a fully and self-directing mind, but to a control acquired over another which virtually destroys his free agency .■.. and ..,. operates as a present restraint upon him in the making of the .will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Opportunity for undue influence, suspicion- and conjecture, do not create or amount- to. .proof of either confidential relationship or undue influence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.