Meyer v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2014
9 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 Grub v. Estate of Wade · St. John Town Board v. Lambert · Villanella v. Godbey · S.C. Nestel, Inc. v. Future Construction Inc. · Supervised Estate of Allender v. Allender
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the plaintiff's evidence establishes (a) the existence of such a relationship, and (b) the questioned transaction(s) between the parties resulted in an advantage to the dominant party in whom the subordinate party had placed his or her trust and confidence, the law imposes a presumption that the transaction was the result of undue influence exerted by the dominant party, constructively fraudulent, and, therefore, void. The burden of proof then shifts to the dominant party to rebut the presumption by clear and unequivocal proof that the questioned transaction was made at arm's length and was thus valid. Undue influence has been defined as the exercise of sufficient control over the person, the validity of whose act is brought into question, to destroy his free agency and constrain him to do what he would not have done if such control had not been exercised.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A judgment is clearly erroneous when a review of the record leaves us with a firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“By virtue of being his father's caretaker, Paul, the child, is in the position of dominance.”
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.