Ex Parte Helms’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
46
cited by 46 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
46 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 641 So. 2d 785 - Smith v. Vice · 611 So. 2d 1051 - Bolan v. Bolan · 709 So. 2d 7 - Ex Parte Baker · Morrow v. Helms
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`mind and memory sufficient to recall and remember the property she was about to bequeath, and the objects of her bounty, and the disposition which she wished to make — to know and understand the nature and consequences of the business to be performed, and to discern the simple and obvious relation of its elements to each other.'"”
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.