Pernot v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Noland v. Noland (1997), Short v. Stephenson (1965)
26 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 Taylor v. McClintock · McCulloch v. Campbell · Puryear v. Puryear · Ouachita Baptist College v. Scott · Huffaker v. Beers
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere age is not necessarily inconsistent with testamentary capacity. ‘Indeed, the mental faculties may he weakened and impaired by old age without destroying such capacity. The mere fact that an aged testator’s memory is failing, or that his judgment is vacillating, or that he is becoming eccentric, or that his mind is not as active as formerly — these things do not invalidate his will if it was fairly made and he was free from undue influence. While age is not of itself a disqualification, yet it excites vigilance to see if it is accompanied with capacity. ’ — Thompson on Wills, § 62, pp. 88-89. ’ ’”
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.