Purdum v. Lilly’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2000
1 district · 18 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 Bliss Ex Rel. Jackson v. Bliss · United Railways & Electric Co. v. Cloman · Hamilton v. Traber · Waverly Mutual & Permanent Land, Loan & Building Ass'n v. Buck · Green v. Hamilton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will afford protection to the person and his estate where any species of mental unsoundness is clearly shown to incapacitate him from protecting either himself or his estate against his own weakness or the artifice of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Discovery Rule 5] embodies the existing practice in this State. The inherent power of the trial court to order a medical examination of a party whenever his condition is relevant to the action is well established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the generic legal term, non compos mentis, is comprehended every species of mental derangement which incapacitates a man from assenting to, or making a legal contract.”
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.