797 So. 2d 992 - Wright v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Croft v. Alder · 515 So. 2d 1183 - Mullins v. Ratcliff · Madden v. Rhodes · 446 So. 2d 575 - Murray v. Laird · 446 So. 2d 1012 - Harris v. Sellers
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether one person has to be taken care of by others, (2) whether one person maintains a close relationship with another, (3) whether one person is provided transportation and has their medical care provided for by another, (4) whether one person maintains joint accounts with another, (5) whether one is physically or mentally weak, (6) whether one is of advanced age or poor health, and (7) whether there exists a power of attorney between the one and another.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) [the grantor's] awareness of his total assets and their general value, (b) an understanding by him of the persons who would be the natural inheritors of his bounty under the laws of descent and distribution or under a prior will and how the proposed change would legally affect that prior will or natural distribution, (c) whether non-relative beneficiaries would be excluded or included and, (d) knowledge of who controls his finances and business and by what method, and if controlled by another, how dependent is the grantor/testator on him and how susceptible to his influence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. May · Wheeler v. Wheeler“(a) the determination of the identity of the initiating party in seeking preparation of the instrument, (b) the place of the execution of the instrument and in whose presence, (c) what consideration and fee were paid, if any, and (d) by whom paid, and (e) the secrecy or openness given the execution of an instrument.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. May · Wheeler v. Wheeler
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.