Greene v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““He did have testamentary capacity.” The instructions immediately following this issue were: “You are further instructed that to make a valid will, the person making the will must have testamentary capacity at the time of the execution of the will. By the term ‘testamentary capacity’ as used in this charge, is meant that the person at the time of the execution of the will has sufficient mental ability to understand the business in which he is engaged, and the effect of his act in making the will, and the general nature and extent of his property. He must also be able to know his next of kin and the natural objects of his bounty and their claims upon him. He must have memory sufficient to collect in his mind the elements of the business to be transacted and to hold them long enough to perceive, at least their obvious relation to each other, and to be able to form a reasonable judgment as to them. “You are further instructed that the term ‘testamentary capacity’ and ‘sound mind’ have the same meaning.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reynolds v. Park