Mills v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2003
10 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 Ismert-Hincke Milling Co. v. Estate of Ismert · Mann v. Staatz
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 mental capacity to contract or to convey property is whether the person possesses sufficient mind to understand, in a reasonable manner, the nature and effect of the act in which he is engaged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The ultimate legal standard of mental capacity to execute a will or promissory note is competency to know and understand the transaction.” (Syl. 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.