Paul Will’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably In Re Estate of Pedrick (1984), Brantlinger Will (1965)
5 federal appellate · 23 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 Pusey's Estate · Phillips' Estate · Ash Will · Tetlow's Estate · Quein 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ppellants' argument requires that four propositions be sustained: (a) that the true value of the stock was $ 800, not $ 50, per share; (b) that [appellee] knew this true value; (c) that, by fraud and misrepresentation, [appellee] concealed the true value from testatrix and lulled her into believing that, on the basis of a $ 50 per share value, she was bequeathing [appellee] less than 3% of her estate; [and] (d) that had testatrix known the true value of the ... stock which represented approximately 33% of her gross estate she would not have made this bequest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“occupying a confidential relationship to testatrix, by the exercise of fraud, misrepresentation and concealment, unduly influenced the testatrix”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The sole issue in the court below was whether [scrivener] had exerted undue influence upon the testatrix[.]”
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.