Baldwin v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1960 · most notably Bancroft v. Otis (1890), Epstein v. Boston Housing Authority (1944)
24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Tyler v. . Gardiner
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But when all is proved that the statute requires; when a testator of sound mind has intentionally made and published a will according to the forms of law, — his will is as much a legal conveyance and disposition of his property as any other lawful instrument of conveyance. It may be impeached or made invalid by proof of fraud, duress, or undue influence, which have caused it to contain provisions which he has been wrongfully induced to insert in it; but so may a deed or other contract be impeached for the like reason.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patten v. Cilley““The whole result of the reasoning would seem to be that upon the separate issue of undue influence the burden of proof is upon the party alleging it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patten v. Cilley
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.