Wells v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably Reed, Admr. v. Brown (1939), 122 Ind. App. 502 - Tompkins v. Smith (1952)
29 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 Stix v. Sadler · Blinn v. . Schwarz · Burns v. Fox · Somers v. Pumphrey · American Trust & Banking Co. v. Boone
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.
“It is elementary that a contract is the product of a meeting of the minds, and that mutual assent is necessary to the making of a valid contract. It follows that, where one of the parties is insane, there can be no mutual assent, and therefore no 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.