McEvoy v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Pledger v. Birkhead (1923), Donaldson v. Johnson (1962)
33 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 Kelly's Heirs v. McGuire · Seawel v. Dirst
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It follows, therefore, that the proof which is designed to invalidate a man’s deed or contract on the ground of insanity must show inability to exercise a reasonable judgment in regard to the matter involved in the conveyance ... To that effect (i. e. to invalidate the deed) the insanity must be such as to disqualify him from intelligently comprehending and acting upon the business affairs out of which the conveyance grew, and to prevent him from understanding the nature and consequences of his act.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Beaty v. Swift · Chapman v. Deer
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.