Kimberly’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2002
24 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 Comstock v. Hadlyme Ecclesiastical Society · Haines v. Hayden · Sydleman v. Beckwith · First Baptist Church & Congregation in Stamford v. Rouse · Hale v. Hills
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have defined a delusion of a testator as a false belief for which there is no reasonable foundation and which would be incredible under the given circumstances to the same person if of sound mind, and concerning which the mind of the decedent was not open to permanent correction through evidence or argument”
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.