Gottesman v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Weinstock v. Eissler (1964), Kyle v. Green Acres at Verona, Inc. (1965)
2 district · 29 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 Deshotel v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Hellman Commercial Trust & Savings Bank v. Alden · Basler v. Sacramento Elec., Gas & Ry. · McMahon v. McCulloch · Pearl v. Pearl
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the finding that [someone] was incapable of caring for his property or transacting business or understanding the nature or effects of his acts was equivalent to a finding in express terms that [he] was insane within the meaning of the statute of limitations.”
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.