Forehand v. Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2018
19 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 Fishburne & Wife v. Ferguson's Heirs · Huff v. Welch · Howard v. Howard · Shacklett v. Roller · Tucker v. Sandidge
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he time at which a will is executed is the vital time for mental capacity to exist. If it appears that the testator had mental capacity at that time, it is immaterial what his mental condition was before or after that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D'Ambrosio v. Wolf“faithful, frugal wife and carefully managed her household affairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomason v. Carlton
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.