Thiel v. Mobley’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1997
17 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 Puryear v. Puryear · Pledger v. Birkhead · Smith v. Boswell · McDaniel ad. v. Crosby · Boggianna v. Anderson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Fifth — The Applicable Law. — The test is whether Mrs. Boykin, on September 13, 1938, had a fair comprehension of the nature and extent of her property, of her relationship to those who had claims upon her, of their situation as it affects financial need, or financial sufficiency; and of other obligations existing at the time she acted. Complete sanity, in a medical sense, is not essential; provided, that the power to think rationally exists when the individual’s will to act is exercised. The word ‘will’ of itself connotates purpose, intent, deliberation, violation, freedom from unreasonable restraint, voluntariness, desire, the power to choose, discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hiler v. Cude
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.