Peacock v. Dubois’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Estate Clara R. Starr v. Wilson (1935), Gardiner v. Goertner (1932)
39 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 Marx v. . McGlynn · Councill v. Mayhew · Burnett v. Smith · Worrall's Appeal · Sandlin v. Hunter Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact of the execution of the deed on the showing made by the record, we think, imposes on the appellant the duty of showing that the transaction was bona fide and that it was not secured by undue influence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where a conveyance was made by a weak and sickly young man to a woman older than himself, and who had been to him as a mother, a presumption arose that such conveyance was obtained by undue influence.”
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.