Fulcher v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1972
5 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 Newton v. Newton · Stiles v. Hawkins · Thornton v. McReynolds · Turner v. Pugh · Missouri Pac. R. Co. v. Baldwin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any proceeding involving the question of mental condition, the proof must be directed to the condition as it existed at a particular time, but such mental condition may be proved by evidence of the state of the person’s mind at other — and especially at prior — times. Considering the remoteness of the time to which the investigation may reach, it has been said that it is impossible to fix a general limit that will control in all cases. The question, however, seems to be one of degree only. The further off the evidence is carried, the weaker it may be, but it is still evidence and should be considered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Hall
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.