Seylaz v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2005
15 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 Slack v. Rees · Post v. Hagan · In Re Fulper · Dean v. Anderson · James v. Aller
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a person under the influence of and dependent upon another makes an improvident gift to the other stripping himself of virtually all his assets, a presumption of undue influence will arise from the facts and the gift will be declared invalid unless the donor has had the benefit of competent and disinterested counsel and it is shown he fully understood and intended the consequences of his act. Slack v. Rees, 66 N.J. Eq. 447 ( E. & A. 1903); Post v. Hagan, 71 N.J. Eq. 234 ( E. & A. 1906); Colgan v. Allen, 110 N.J. Eq. 451 ( E. & A. 1932); Gross v. Lieber, 112 N.J. Eq. 570 ( Ch. 1933); Croker v. Clegg, 123 N.J. Eq. 332 ( E. & A. 1937); Oswald v. Seidler, 136 N.J. Eq. 443 ( E. & A. 1945); Vanderbach v. Vollinger, 1 N.J. 481 (1949).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.