Chrisman v. Quick’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1960 · most notably Canfield v. Canfield (1934), Kentucky Trust Co. v. Gore (1946)
35 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 Watson's Exr. v. Watson · Bannon v. Patrick Bannon Sewer Pipe Co. · Collier v. Dundon · Yahr v. Hynes
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.
““ ‘Equity looks only to the competency of the understanding, and neither age, sickness, extreme distress, nor debility of the body will affect the capacity to make a contract or conveyance, if sufficient intelligence remains to understand the transaction.’ 9 Cyc. 459.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Revlett v. Revlett
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.