Knight v. Aikens’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1984
12 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 Wilson v. Mitchell · Campbell v. Campbell · State ex rel. Moore v. Sandusky · Freeman v. Easly · Shaver v. McCarthy
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A party may be so diseased mentally as not to be of sound mind, and yet may possess what the law terms `a disposing mind.' Nothing more is required than that the party must be capable of acting rationally in the ordinary affairs of life, so that he may comprehend what disposition he may wish to make of his property, and be able to select the subjects of his bounty. [citation omitted] If he knew and comprehended what he was about when he executed the instrument, he had sufficient testamentary capacity." In Re Corson's Estate, 1912, 29 S.D. 14 , 135 N.W. 666 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.