In Re Maas’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1982
20 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 Leggate v. Clark · In Re Patswald · Dewey v. Allgire · Knox v. Haug
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The boards of insanity are special boards created by law for a special purpose. It was only intended to clothe them with the power to determine who should be confined in the territorial asylum for treatment, and they have not the power to fix one’s legal status; that is to declare one to 'be in law sane or insane, and the fact that probate judges are made members of these respective boards changes not the rule. When a probate judge acts in this capacity, he acts as any other member of the board, and not as a probate judge or as a probate court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kirk v. McClendon““ * * * If the trial court committed error in pronouncing judgment and sentence upon the defendant, his only remedy is by an appeal to- this court. Such matters cannot be reviewed in this- action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.