Beman v. Stembridge’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2005
11 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 Smith v. Davis · Griffin v. Barrett · Skinner v. Braswell · Bowman v. Bowman · Fehn v. Shaw
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.
“[T]he condition of the testator’s mind at the time of the execution of the will determines whether he can make a valid will. [Cit.] “As tending to illustrate the mental condition at that time evidence of such condition at other times may be received; but where it is sought to establish testamentary incapacity by such evidence, it does not controvert the positive testimony of the subscribing witnesses unless it would be proof of testamentary incapacity at the time the will was signed.” [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Sneed
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.