Scott v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Reese (1979), Rothermel v. Duncan (1963)
1 federal appellate · 91 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . reasonably indicative of what his mental state was at the time . [or] . . . be of such nature as tend to reveal it by being in themselves expressive of his mental state. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powell v. Powell
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.