Leonard v. Stanton’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1989
15 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 Comstock v. Hadlyme Ecclesiastical Society · In re the Last Will & Testament of Gluckman · Jones v. Bennett · Stewart v. Harriman · Knox v. Perkins
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor is the will invalid by reason of the fact that Mr. Leonard was one of the subscribing witnesses. The executor named in a will is a competent attesting witness. (Cases cited.) And the same is true of one who is named therein as a trustee. `A trustee acquires no beneficial interest and if any commissions are to be paid to him, they are given as compensation for services and are fixed by law or by the order of the court' * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(A)ccording to the prevailing view, if the testator knew and approved the contents of his will, it is immaterial that he mistook the legal effects of the language used or that he acted upon the mistaken advice of counsel; provided that the advice “was given in an honest belief that it was sound.””
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.