Fischer v. Sperl’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably In Re Estate of Holcomb (2002), Northwestern Marble & Tile Co. v. Williams (1915)
33 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 Louis Beyer v. Caroline Le Fevre · Bancroft v. Otis · Cruikshank v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance · Fisher v. . Bishop · Beaubien v. Cicotte
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, in connection with sufficient other circumstances, these facts may make out a prima facie case of undue influence, sufficient to cast upon the principal beneficiary the burden of establishing the validity of the will in this respect.””
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.