Drury v. Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably Osgood v. Skinner (1904), Wilkinson v. Service (1911)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Witt v. Gardiner
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order that a signing shall be in the presence of the testator, in the statutory sense of the word, he must be mentally conscious of what is going on about him. He must have the power to recognize the acts of the witnesses, if not by sight, then by and through the avenue of some other sense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Welch v. Kirby
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.