Vance v. Upson’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably Oechsner v. Ameritrust Texas, N.A. (1992), Campbell v. Campbell (1919)
40 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If however, he had not the qualities or capabilities above enumerated, or if, at the timfe, he was laboring under an insane delusion, either in regard to his property, or the natural and proper objects of his bounty, which affected the disposition he was attempting to make, or of which delusion the papers were the offspring or fruit, then such a person was not in a condition to make a valid will, and a will propounded under those circumstances ought to be set aside, and held for naught.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodgers v. Fleming““These charges presented the real issues made by the evidence as well as the pleadings in the case.” . . ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodgers v. Fleming
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.