McMaster v. Scriven’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1952
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 Delafield v. . Parish · Clapp v. . Fullerton · In Re Proving the Will of Coleman · Alberti v. N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Railroad · Tyler v. . Gardiner
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.
““Quite a number of witnesses, particularly on the part of the proponent, expressed opinions unfavorable to her testamentary capacity, but the facts they state to justify their conclusions are few, and do not throw much light on the question. Mere opinion, without substantial grounds to justify it, is of comparatively little value. Several other witnesses, and among them her attending physician and Mr. Wickhem, who drew the will, give quite clear and convincing testimony showing that she was fully competent to make a testamentary disposition of her property at the time she executed this will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Peterson
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.