De Bruin v. De Bruin’s Empirical Analysis
195 F.2d 763 · 1952
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2004
7 federal appellate · 2 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 Connecticut Mut Life Ins Co v. Lathrop · Turner v. American Security & Trust Co. · Stewart v. Overholser · Stewart v. Overholser · Obold v. Obold
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 conclusion of the trial court with regard to appellee’s'mental capacity was based upon the testimony of laymen and of a physician who was not a psychiatrist. This was not error. ‘[A]s a general rule the admissibility of the evidence of lay witnesses to the mental capacity of a testator is a matter in-the sound discretion of the trial court.’1 There is no reason which would justify the application of a different rule in the present case. Thus, laymen who have had a particularly good vantage point for . observing the person under scrutiny may express their opinions as to mental capacity to court or jurors who have not had such an opportunity. And the court or jurors are the reasonable men who may find the truth therefrom. * * * ” “ 1 Obold v. Obold, 1947, 82 U.S.App.D.C. 268 , 163 F.2d 32, 33 . * * *"”
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.