Severance v. Severance’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1938
23 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 Maynard v. Vinton
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Undue influence cannot be predicated upon opportunity alone, nor upon conduct in the line of filial duty, nor upon a disposition of property not in accordance with the statute of descent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swick v. Hartman“The influence to vitiate this will must have been such as to amount to force and coercion, destroying his free agency and there must be proof that the will was obtained by this coercion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Reed's Estate
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.