Crum v. Crum’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1991
22 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 Meier v. Buchter · Knapp v. St. Louis Trust Co. · Holton v. Cochran · Riggin v. Board of Trustees of Westminster College · Goodfellow v. Shannon
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘There is no difficulty in the case of a raving madman or of a driveling idiot, in saying that he is not a person capable of disposing of property. But between such an extreme case and that of a man of perfectly sound and vigorous understanding, there is every shade of intellect, every degree of mental capacity. There is no possibility of mistaking midnight for noon; but at what precise moment twilight becomes darkness is hard to determine.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGirr v. Farley
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.