McDevitt v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2007
10 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 In Re Tatum's Will · In Re the Will of York · Davis v. . Davis · Steele v. . Beaty · In Re Will of Lomax
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and whether he knew what land he was disposing of, to whom and how,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * [D]o you have an opinion satisfactory to yourself as to whether or not Daniel J. Hendricks on these occasions when you did see him between 29 January 1965 and 15 April 1965 had sufficient mental capacity to understand the nature and consequences of making a deed, its scope and effect, and know what land he was disposing of, and to whom, and how?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule is well established that a nonexpert witness may not be permitted to make the abstract statement that a grantor `did not have sufficient mental capacity to make a deed.' This is so for the reason that mental capacity to make a deed is not a question of fact * * * it is a conclusion which the law draws from certain facts as a premise * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.