Scott v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
190 F.2d 134 · 1951
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2023
5 federal appellate · 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 Huling v. Kaw Val Ry Imp Co · Lambert v. Powell · Quigley v. Cremin · Wherry v. Latimer · Zaro v. Strauss
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lack of proper representation of a mental incompetent does not of itself render a judgment against him void. Such a judgment is merely voidable, good until set aside on direct attack.”); McCampbell v. Warrich Corp., 109 F.2d 115, 118 (7th Cir.1940) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Gales“[i]n Mississippi, as elsewhere, the law presumes sanity until the contrary is shown . . . [o]ld age, weakening of the memory and understanding, and occasional eccentric acts are not of themselves sufficient evidence of incapacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Mississippi, as elsewhere, the law presumes sanity until the contrary is shown, the burden of proving insanity being upon him who asserts it, as sanity is the normal state.”
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.