Lambert v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As to the degree of mental capacity required in each case this Court has approved the rule as to a will to the effect that it is sufficient for the testator to understand and appreciate the nature of his act, the natural objects or persons of his bounty and their relations to him, and was capable of reason ing and thinking of how he desired to devise and bequeath his property. Moore et al. v. Parks et al., supra; Fortenberry v. Herrington, supra; and in case of a deed that the grantor shall have sufficient mental capacity to understand in a reasonable manner the nature of the particular transaction in which he was engaged and its consequences and effects upon his rig'hts and interest. Gillis et al. v. Smith et al., 114 Miss. 665 , 75 So. 451, 454 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Conerly v. Lewis