Cook v. Sheats’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1996
5 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 Northwestern University v. Crisp · Thompson v. Mitchell · Holland v. Bell · Pergason v. Etcherson · Murphy v. Murphy
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where there is an issue of fact as to the testamentary capacity of the maker of a will, evidence showing the source from which property disposed of by the will came into the decedent’s possession is relevant and material to show whether the provisions of the will are just and reasonable, and accord with the state of the testator’s family relations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bishop v. Kenny
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.