Jackson v. . Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently May 1974 · most notably In re Spencer (1892), In Re the Probate of the Will of Hopkins (1902)
64 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Clapp v. . Fullerton · Jackson ex dem. Bowman v. Christman · Lewis v. Lewis · Leaycraft v. Simmons · Smith v. New York & Harlem Railroad
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of a testator to dispose of his estate depends neither on the justice of his prejudices nor the soundness of his reasonings. He may do what he will with his own; and if there he no defect of testamentary capacity, and no undue influence or fraud, the law gives effect to his will, though its provisions are unreasonable and unjust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Crumb's 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.