Harbison v. Beets’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is familiar law that one laboring under an insane delusion which influences him to make a will in a certain way does not possess testamentary capacity. In Medill v. Snyder, 61 Kan. 15 , an instruction to the effect that ‘the testator might be capable of transacting the ordinary business affairs of life and sane on other matters, but that if the will was influenced and the direct offspring of an unfounded and insane delusion it could not be sustained’ . . . was approved.” (p. 18.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Steward v. Marker

2. ““It is insisted that the findings are unsupported by the evidence, and that some of them are contrary thereto, but from the lips of more than fifty witnesses fell testimony sufficient to support either theory of the case.” (p. 12.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re the Estate of Carothers

3. ““He knew what he was doing, but he had an insane reason for doing it. This is really not more mysterious than other manifestations of insanity, for its effects are often inconsistent and inscrutable.” (p. 18.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. DeCrow v. Harkness