Leventhal v. Baumgartner’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1997
6 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 Slaughter v. Heath · Terry v. Buffington · Morgan v. Bell · Jarrard v. State · Pantone v. Pantone
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It is a progressive disease and affects the patient mentally as well as physically * * * the condition continued to grow progressively worse * * * I think the condition affected both his mind and body. The people who came in daily contact with [testator] would be in a much better position to judge the extent of his mental deterioration than a person who has seen him only once.' * * * I would not undertake to testify that, because one who had arteriosclerosis and who had it in April or May of 1947 and who still has it in April of 1948, was not normal mentally * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he mere fact that a person is shown to have a weak intellect on account of disease is not sufficient to take from him the sacred right of disposing of his property by will in such manner as he may desire.”
1 later decision 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.