Atkinson v. McCulloh’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2015
1 district · 3 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 Flach v. Gottschalk Co. · Odom v. . Riddick · Brewster v. Weston
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it seems to us the sounder view, and one more nearly in accord with the decisions of this court, is that the contract of a lunatic, made with a sane person who had, or could by the exercise of reasonable prudence have had, knowledge of his disability, may be avoided at the option of the lunatic when of sound mind, or by his guardian, heirs, or devisees ... provided they exercise that option within a reasonable time, and surrender whatever benefit they have received from the transaction.”
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.