Powell v. Thigpen’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2017
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 Yarbrough v. Yarbrough · Perkins v. Edwards · Moreland v. Word
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.
“While the evidence, construed most strongly against the propounder, showed the testator to have numerous eccentricities, yet none of such eccentricities would be sufficient to show a lack of mental capacity to make a will unless monomania was established . . .” Powell v. Thigpen, 230 Ga. 760 (2) ( 199 SE2d 251 ) (1973). In Brumbelow v. Hopkins, 197 Ga. 247 (1) ( 29 SE2d 42 ) (1944), this court held:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cobb v. Thompson
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.