116 Ind. App. 517 - Keplinger v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1975
11 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 108 Ind. App. 485 - Deckard v. Kleindorfer · 115 Ind. App. 253 - Daugherty v. Daugherty · 111 Ind. App. 156 - Berning v. Scheuman
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of the capacity to make a deed is that the grantor shall have sufficient mind and memory to comprehend the nature and extent of his act and to understand the nature of the business in which he is engaged, and to exercise his own will with reference thereto. (Citation omitted). “There is no evidence of such incapacity. Several lay witnesses testified that in their opinion the grantor herein was of unsound mind. But the opinion of non-expert witnesses that a person is of unsound mind can have no greater weight than the facts upon which such opinion is based, (Citation omitted). “In the instant case these opinions were based upon such unsubstantial facts as that the grantor talked loudly and cursed about politics, money matters and his family, that he was unkempt and dirty, that he said upon occasions that he had become lost, and that he occasionally rambled in his conversations from one subject to another.”
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.