Chambers v. Winn’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1981 · most notably Lee v. Lee (1968), Carr v. Radkey (1965)
35 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 Brown v. Mitchell · Long v. Long · Campbell v. Campbell · Long v. Long · Pickering v. Harris
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule applicable as to the relevancy and probative character of the testimony stated in Campbell v. Campbell, Tex.Civ. App., 215 S.W. 134, 138 , writ refused, and predicated upon its more general pronouncement in Brown v. Mitchell et al., supra, is as follows: “ ‘We understand the rule to be that witnesses, whether experts or laymen, may, having first stated their observation or knowledge of the habits, conduct, expressions, peculiarities, disposition, temper, or character of the person, in turn may give their opinion as to whether he was mentally capable of knowing or understanding the nature and effect of his acts, etc., as distinguished from his opinion as to whether the testator possessed the degree of intelligence to do what he did do.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.