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Fairchild v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

1954

Citation profile

83
cited by 83 later decisions
1
states following
January 2014
most recently cited

83 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 60 Cal. 2d 367 - Estate of Fritschi (1963), 55 Cal. 2d 867 - Martin v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board (1961)

83 state decisions

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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 25 Cal. 2d 520 - Teel v. Gaskill · 16 Cal. 2d 573 - Peterson v. Logan · In re Estate of McDevitt · Estate of Lingenfelter · Snowball v. Snowball

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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “' "a pressure which overpowered the mind and bore down the volition of the testator at the very time the will was made”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Frazier v. McMann · 264 Cal. App. 2d 976 - Estate of Niquette
  2. “It is not sufficient for a contestant merely to prove circumstances consistent with the exercise of undue influence; but before the will can be overthrown the circumstances must be inconsistent with voluntary action on the part of the testator.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 146 Cal. App. 2d 642 - Estate of Burlew · 219 Cal. App. 2d 164 - Estate of Wright
  3. ““Myrtle was of a mild disposition and tried to avoid quarrels with Arthur . . . Arthur systematically excluded Geraldine (defendant herein) and her sons from the house. However, Myrtle surreptitiously visited Geraldine in Long Beach when Arthur was away on his frequent mining trips.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fairchild v. Adams

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.