Scott v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2004
13 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 Taylor v. McClintock · Puryear v. Puryear · Pernot v. King · Tobin v. Jenkins
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Complete sanity, in a medical sense, is not essential; provided, that the power to think rationally exists when the individual's will to act is exercised.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thiel v. Mobley
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.