Pipes v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1992
9 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 Burnett v. Smith · Moor v. Parks · Lambert v. Powell · Puryear v. Austin · Campbell v. State Highway Commission
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.
““In Burnett v. Smith, 93 Miss. 566 , 47 So. 117, 118 , this Court said: ‘A man of sound mind may execute a will or a deed from any sort of motive satisfactory to him, whether that motive be love, affection, gratitude, partiality, prejudice, or even a whim or caprice.’ [Citations omitted]. . . . The trial court having found on adequate proof that [grantor] was of sound mind at the time of the execution of the instrument, and that she executed the same voluntarily and of her own free will . . ., the Court may not inquire into the wisdom or folly of her act.” 236 Miss. at 618 , 111 So. at 643.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thigpen v. Payton
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.