Evans v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2017
4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Probate Court)
Relationships
Relies on Rothermel v. Duncan · Matter of Estate of Woods · Estate of Johnson, in Re · Simpson v. Neely · Tuttle v. Simpson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the existence and exertion of an influence; (2) that the influence operated to subvert or overpower the person’s mind when executing the document; and (3) that the person would not have executed the document but for the influence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cobb v. Justice
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.