Converse v. Mix’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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.

1. ““Influences to induce testamentary disposition may be specific and direct without becoming undue. ' It is not improper to advise, to persuade, to solicit, to importune, to entreat and to implore. Hopes and fears and even prejudices may be moved. Appeals may be made to vanity and to pride, to the sense of justice and to the obligations of duty, to ties of friendship, of affection and of kindred, to the sentiment of gratitude, to pity for distress and destitution.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Patterson v. McWhirk

2. ““It is not surprising nor unnatural, therefore, that she should make him the object of her greatest bounty; and, while her affection for this son may have influenced her to remember him in her will to the partial exclusion of her other son and her daughter, it is not that character of influence that is classed by the law as undue influence, or that character of influence that authorizes the courts to vacate and hold for naught last wills and testaments.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stolle v. Kanetzky