Barnett v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Alabama Power Co. v. Thompson (1947), Lewis v. Martin (1923)
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 Pritchard v. Fowler · Jones v. Brooks · Alexander v. Gibson · Mullen v. Johnson · Smith v. Smith
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact of how the testatrix acquired her property or how much she may or may not have contributed to the purchase of same by her deceased husband, or the reasons or motives that led her to make the will of 1910, as it was not being contested, had no legitimate bearing upon her mental status when executing the will under contest, which was made five years thereafter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Howell
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.