In re Baker's Will’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1958
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Lillie's Estate · Amos v. Fish · Neal v. Lyman
Most-quoted passages
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“"A testator has a sound mind of testamentary purposes when he can understand and carry in mind, in a general way the nature and situation of his property and his relation to those who naturally have some claim to his remembrance, and to those in whom, and the things in which, he has been chiefly interested. Mere showing that at time of execution his memory was bad, and that he was physically weak, unaided by other evidence is insufficient to establish lack of testamentary capacity."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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