Ziegler v. Hettermann’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably In Re Estate of McCauley (1966), 89 Cal. App. 2d 563 - Pohlmann v. Naschel (1949)
31 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 Estate of Lances · In re Estate of McDevitt · Gavin v. Protestant Episcopal Bishop · In Re the Estate of Arnold · Jenkins v. Anderson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not, as a matter of law, overcome the inference of undue influence which may be drawn from the other facts”
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.