Sheehan v. Kearney’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably Burnett v. Smith (1908), McGarrh v. State (1963)
52 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Dennis v. Weekes
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, when the proponent of a will offers the will and the record of its probate, a presumption is thereby raised that the alleged testator had testamentary capacity, and this presumption satisfies the burden of proof in that respect; ... the production of such will and such record of probate, under our statute, raises the presumption that the alleged will was the free and voluntary act of the alleged testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... This was peculiarly a case for the jury, under proper instructions from the court, as to the law. A verdict for either party, on this testimony, should not have been disturbed by the court ... Facts are for the jury, the triers of issues of fact... . ( 82 Miss. at 689 , 21 So. at 41)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.