Imel v. Metz’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably In Re Estate of Hobelsberger (1970), In Re Blake's Estate (1965)
44 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 In Re Rowland's Estate · Davies v. Toms · Johnson v. Shaver · McKiver v. Theo. Hamm Brewing Co. · Coleman v. Dooley
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““During this period decedent was either at Imel’s home or hospitals at Rapid City. Metz was in strange surroundings away from his usual friends and neighbors. Imel was kind to him and took care of his every need. In the preparation and execution of various legal documents Metz never had the benefit of independent legal advice or counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walsh v. Shoulders
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.