Gillette v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1971
10 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 Johnson v. Shaver
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That they had an opportunity to talk with him' and possibly to influence him' cannot be questioned, but opportunity alone, or opportunity together with the fact that they were provided for in the will, does not amount tO' legal proof that they were instrumental in bringing about the disposition made of his property. McKenzie v. Murray, 183 N. W. 736 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tobin v. Nordness
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.