Doolittle v. Upson’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2001
10 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 Ziman v. Whitley · Meglio v. Comeau · Collins v. Erdmann · Fordiani's Petition for Naturalization · Hobbes Appeal From Probate
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [trial] court charged: `A person may be competent to make a deed though she has not mental capacity sufficient for the management or transaction of business generally and not mentally capable of making and digesting all the parts of a contract.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“some mental impairment could occur and still leave the testatrix with a sound mind within the definition of testamentary capacity. . . .”
1 later decision 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.