Barnhill v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1975
18 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 Ginter v. Ginter · Wisner v. Chandler · Morgan v. Keller · Darling v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Decker v. House
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to possess the mental capacity to make a valid will the law, based upon the experiences of mankind, does not require the testator to possess the ability to carry on complicated business matters. It is sufficient if he has mental capacity to know what property he has, and is able to make a disposition of it with understanding; that he knows the persons and objects of his bounty, and their condition and relation to him, and that he is able to dictate the terms of the will.” (p. 75.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foulks v. McCray
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.