Horn v. . Pullman’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently November 1969 · most notably In Re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Kennedy (1901), 14 E.H. Smith 584 - Dobie v. . Armstrong (1899)
70 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.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such a rule would be dangerous in the extreme, and the law wisely sustains testamentary dispositions made by persons of impaired mental and bodily powers, provided the will is the free act of the testator, and he has sufficient intelligence to comprehend the condition of his property, and the scope, meaning, and effect of the provisions of the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roche v. Nason““It does show impaired mental and bodily powers, but it falls short of establishing that the testator did not understand his relation to his children and others, the condition of his property, and the nature and effect of a testamentary act.””
1 later decision 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.