Folts v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2015
3 federal appellate · 8 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An insane person is, of course, incapable of exercising a right or power of election [under an insurance policy], but any election on his behalf should be exercised by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Before the character of the interest in property held by a [eonservatee] can be changed, it must be made manifest that it is necessary to protect and promote his interest. Although as a rule, the court will preserve, as far as possible, the interests of the succession, this rule yields' to the paramount rule which makes the [conser-vatee’s] welfare the first consideration without regard to the rights of those who may have eventually rights to succession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grahl v. Davis
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.