Adams v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Gardine v. Cottey (1950), McCoy v. McCoy (1950)
25 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 Walter v. Alt · Clark v. Campbell · Rex v. Masonic Home · First Trust Company v. Myers · Nute v. Fry
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A testator with mind enough to understand,' the ordinary affairs of life, the kind and extent of his property, who are the natural objects of his bounty, and that he is giving his property to the persons mentioned in his will, in the manner therein stated, is capable of making a will under the law of this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardy v. Barbour“tends to disprove mental and physical weakness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stormon v. Weiss
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.