Thomas v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
22 F.2d 588 · 1927
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1974
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · Berry v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · 10 App. D.C. 30 - Barbour v. Moore · 29 App. D.C. 198 - Morgan v. Adams
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the legal standard he who is possessed of sufficient capacity at the time of executing his will to make a disposition of his estate with judgment and understanding in reference to the amount and situation of his property and the relative claims of the different persons who should have been the objects of his bounty, is mentally competent to make a valid will.” Id. at 49 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phelps v. Goldberg
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.