Gillis v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 515 So. 2d 1183 - Mullins v. Ratcliff (1987), Fortenberry v. Herrington (1940)
44 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 Burnett v. Smith · Ralston v. Turpin · Knox v. Knox · Wherry v. Latimer · Clarke v. Hartt
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A man of sound mind may execute a will or a deed from any sort of motive satisfactory to him, whether that motive be love, affection, gratitude, partiality, prejudice, or even a whim or caprice. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Will of Moses
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.